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Charter  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio 


AS  CONTAINED  IN 


Chapter  XLIV,  Special  Laws  Twenty-eighth  Legislature 
(1903,  p.  322),  as  amended  by  Chapter  LXX,  Special  Laws 
Thirtieth  Legislature  (1907,  p.  562),  Chapter  CII,  Special 
Laws  Thirty-second  Legislature  (1911,  p.  878),  and  by  amend¬ 
ments  adopted  at  an  election  held  on  February  24th,  A.  D. 
1914,  of  record  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State  in  Book 
No.  2  of  Records  of  City  Charters  and  Amendments,  pages 
241  to  298,  Inclusive.*^ 


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Section  1.**  That  the  inhabitants  of  the  City  of  San 
Antonio,  in  Bexar  County,  State  of  Texas,  residing  within 
the  territory  hereinafter  described,  shall  continue  to  be 
and  are  hereby  constituted  a  body  politic  and  corporate,  incor¬ 
porated  by  the  name  of  City  of  San  Antonio,  and  by  that  name 
shall  have  perpetual  succession,  and  shall  have  and  shall  succeed 
to  all  the  rights,  property,  real,  personal,  and  mixed,  immunities, 
powers,  privileges  and  franchises  now  held,  possessed  and  en¬ 
joyed  by  said  City  or  herein  granted  and  be  subject  to  all  its 
present  duties  and  liabilities,  subject  to  the  limitations  prescribed 
in  this  Charter,  and  may  have  a  corporate  seal,  sue  and  be  sued. 


*  There  is  omitted  from  this  compiliation  Chapter  14,  General 
laws  of  the  Thirty-first  Legislature  (1907,  p.  402),  now  contained 
in  the  Revised  Civil  Statutes  of  Texas  for  1911,  being  therein 
Chapter  XI  in  Title  22,  and  known  as  Articles  1006  to  1017, 
inclusive,  which  said  x4ct  was  lawfully  adopted  by  the  City  of 
San  Antonio  as  a  part  of  the  organic  law  of  said  City  as  the 
result  of  a  special  election  held  on  June  30th,  1913. 

**Amendment  of  1911. 


plead  and  be  impleaded  in  all  courts,  contract  and  be  con¬ 
tracted  with,  ordain  and  establish  such  acts  and  regulations 
and  ordinances  not  inconsistent  with  the  Constitution  and  laws 
of  this  State,  as  shall  be  needed  for  the  government,  interest 
welfare  and  good  order  of  said  City;  take,  hold,  acquire  and 
convey,  lease  and  dispose  of  any  property  whatever  in  said  city 
limits,  and  for  sewer,  sanitary,  cemetery  and  other  corporate 
purposes,  to  acquire  necessary  property  by  purchase  or  con¬ 
demnation  within  or  without  the  city  limits,  and  to  lease,  convey 
and  alien  the  same  when  no  longer  required ;  provided,  that  the 
City  shall  not  sell  the  present  “sewer  farm,”  containing  about 
five  hundred  and  thirty  acres,  nor  rent  or  lease  the  same  for  any 
purpose  for  a  term  exceeding  one  year,  at  any  one  time ;  provided, 
however,  that  said  “sewer  farm,”  or  any  part  thereof,  may  be 
subdivided  into  lots  to  be  used  or  sold  by  the  City  for  cemetery 
purposes  only. 

Section  2.*  The  bounds  and  limits  of  said  City,  within  which 
said  corporation  shall  have  jurisdicition  shall  include  six  miles 
square,  of  which  the  sides  shall  be  equi-distant  from  what  is 
known  as  the  cupola  of  the  cathedral  of  San  Fernando,  and  three 
miles  therefrom,  with  lines  running  east,  west,  north  and  south, 
which  bounds  shall  be  ascertained  and  established  under  the 
direction  of  the  City  Council ;  provided,  however,  that  said  City 
shall  also  have  jurisdiction  extending  over  all  property  that  it 
may  own  or  hereafter  acquire  for  corporation  purposes  outside 
of  the  limits  of  said  City. 

Section  3.*  The  City  Council  shall  divide  the  City  into  eight 
wards,  fixing  the  boundaries  thereof  so  that  each  ward  shall 
contain  as  nearly  as  possible,  the  same  number  of  electors,  the 
boundaries  of  which  wards  said  Council  may  change  from  time 
to  time  as  it  may  deem  expedient.  The  Council  shall  also  divide 


*Act  of  1903. 


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each  ward  into  suitable  election  precincts  so  that  each  precinct 
shall  contain  as  nearly  as  possible  the  same  number  of  electors, 
and  the  Council  may  change  such  precincts  from  time  to  time 
as  it  may  deem  expedient.  No  change  in  wards  or  precincts 
shall  be  made  within  six  months  next  preceding  an  election  in 
said  City,  and  the  present  wards  and  election  precincts  shall 
remain  as  now  fixed  until,  in  the  judgment  of  the  City  Council, 
a  change  may  be  necessary. 

Section  4.*  All  elections  shall  be  held  in  accordance  with 
the  laws  of  the  State  and  this  charter,  and  returns  of  such  elec¬ 
tions  shall  be  made  to  the  Mayor  in  the  same  manner  as  such 
returns  are  made  under  the  State  laws  governing  elections,  but 
the  City  Council  may  adopt  such  other  methods  and  regulations 
to  protect  the  purity  of  the  ballot  as  it  may  deem  proper,  not 
contrary  to  the  laws  of  this  State.  The  qualifications  of  voters 
shall  be  the  same  as  are  now  or  may  hereafter  be  prescribed  in 
the  Constitution  and  laws  of  this  State. 

Section  5.*  In  elections  in  which  property  taxpayers  only 
are  allowed  to  vote  under  this  charter,  only  those  who  are  actual 
taxpayers  and  whose  names  appear  on  the  last  assessment  roll 
of  the  City  shall  be  deemed  property  taxpayers,  but  if  the  name 
of  any  person  offering  to  vote,  he  being  otherwise  qualified  does 
not  appear  on  said  tax  roll  and  such  person  produces  his  property 
tax  receipt  of  the  preceding  year  and  makes  affidavit  that  he 
has  paid  the  same,  he  shall  be  entitled  to  vote,  but  the  word 
“sworn”  shall  be  written  on  the  back  of  his  ballot  and  opposite 
his  name  on  the  poll  lists. 

Section  6.*  All  officers  of  election  shall  be  selected  by  the 
Council  and  shall  be  qualified  voters  of  said  City  and  of  the 


*Act  of  1903. 


election  precincts  in  which  they  are  to  serve.  The  Council  shall 
provide  such  compensation  for  all  officers  of  election  as  is  pro¬ 
vided  by  the  laws  of  the  State  and  may,  by  ordinance,  further 
regulate  and  define  their  duties  and  powers. 

Section  7.*  Paragraph  1 :  The  municipal  government  of 
said  City  shall  consist  of  a  Board  of  Commissioners,  composed 
of  a  Mayor  and  four  Commissioners,  who,  together,  shall  be 
known  as  the  Commissioners  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio.  The 
Mayor  and  Commissioners  shall  be  elected,  as  hereinafter  pro¬ 
vided,  for  a  period  of  two  years,  and  shall  hold  office  until  their 
successors  have  qualified ;  and  said  Commissioners  shall  have 
and  exercise  all  powers  and  discretions  vested  by  this  Charter,  or 
otherwise,  in  the  governing  body  of  said  City,  whether  such 
governing  body  shall  be  in  any  part  of  said  Charter  or  other 
instrument,  termed  City  Council,  Board  of  Commissioners  or 
Commissioners,  provided  however,  that  the  first  election  of  a 
Mayor  and  Commissioners  shall  be  held  on  the  second  Tuesday 
in  May,  1915. 

Paragraph  2 :  The  executive  and  administrative  powers,  au¬ 
thorities  and  duties  shall  be  distributed  in  and  among  five  (5) 
departments,  as  follows : 

A.  The  Department  of  Public  Affairs  in  General ; 

B.  The  Department  of  Taxation ; 

C.  The  Department  of  Sanitation,  Parks  and  Public  Pro¬ 

perty  ; 

D.  The  Department  of  Streets  and  Public  Improvements  * 

and, 

E.  The  Department  of  Fire  and  Police. 

Paragraph  3 :  The  Mayor  shall  be  at  the  head  and  have  charge 
of  the  Department  of  Public  Affairs  in  General,  and  shall  have 


*  Amendment  of  1914. 


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the  general  supervision  and  oversight  of  all  departments  and^ 
offices,  officers  and  employees  of  the  City.  He  shall  be  chair¬ 
man  of  the  Board  of  Health.  He  shall  sign  all  contracts  and 
obligations  on  behalf  of  the  City ;  provided,  that  should  the 
Mayor  refuse  to  sign  any  contract  or  obligation,  the  same  shall 
become  effective  without  his  signature  upon  being  signed  by  any 
three  of  the  other  Commissioners.  He  shall  have  charge  of  and 
cause  to  be  prepared  and  published  all  statements  and  reports 
required  by  law  or  ordinance  or  by  resolution  of  the  Com¬ 
mission.  It  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  the  Mayor  to  preside  at 
all  meetings  of  the  Board  of  Commissioners  and  to  appoint  such 
committees  as  may  be  provided  by  ordinance,  order  or  resolution 
of  the  Board.  All  powers  and  duties  not  distributed  or  assigned 
to  some  other  department  are  hereby  assigned  to  the  Mayor. 

Paragraph  4:  The  Commissioner  of  Taxation  shall  have 
special  charge  of  the  assessment  and  collection  of  taxes  and  the 
collection  of  all  other  revenues  of  the  City.  He  shall  liave 
charge  of  and  supervise  all  accounts  and  records,  except  as  other¬ 
wise  provided  herein.  He  shall  inspect  or  cause  to  be  inspected 
at  least  quarterly  all  records  and  accounts  repuired  to  be  kept 
by  the  City  Auditor,  and  make  reports  thereof  to  the  Com¬ 
mission.  The  Commissioner  of  Taxation  shall,  within  ten  (10) 
days  after  he  has  qualified,  enter  into  a  bond  with  two  (2)  or 
more  good;  and  sufficient  sureties,  payable  to  the  Mayor  of  the 
City  of  San  Antonio,  or  his  successors  in  office,  in  the  sum  of 
One  Hundred  Thousand  ($100,000.00)  Dollars,  said  bond  to  be 
approved  by  a  majority  of  the  other  Commissionei  s,  and  to  be 
conditioned  on  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duties.  Pie  shall 
be  required  to  deposit  daily  in  the  City  depository  all  funds 
collected  by  him. 

Paragraph  5 :  The  Commissioner  of  Sanitation.  Parks  and 
Public  Property  shall  have  under  his  special  charge  the  care 
and  maintenance  of  sanitation.  He  shall  have  control  of  all 
parks  and  pleasure  grounds,  watercourses  and  sewer.s,  the  City 


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Hall  and  Market  House,  with  the  grounds  adjoining  the  same, 
and  all  other  buildings  and  grounds  belonging  to  or  controlled 
by  the  City ;  provided  the  Commissioner  of  Fire  and  Police  shall 
have  charge  of  the  buildings  and  grounds  pertaining  to  his  de¬ 
partment  ;  provided,  however,  he  shall  have  no  control  or  super¬ 
vision  over  the  improvement  or  maintenance  of  streets.  He 
shall  have  charge  of  and  supervision  of  all  cemeteries  in  or  be¬ 
longing  to  the  City,  and  over  all  property  belonging  to  or  used 
in  connection  with  such  cemeteries.  He  shall  perform  such 
duties  as  may  be  prescribed  by  ordinance  for  the  maintenance  and 
protection  of  all  public  buildings  and  parks  and  other  property 
under  his  jurisdiction. 

Paragraph  6:  The  Commissioner  of  Streets  and  Pul)lic  Im¬ 
provements  shall  have  under  his  special  charge  the  construction 
and  improvement  and  maintenance  of  all  highways  in  the  City. 
He  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be  provided  by  the 
Commissioners. 

Paragraph  7 :  The  Commissioner  of  Fire  and  Police  shall 
have  under  his  special  charge  the  enforcement  of  all  fire  and 
police  regulations  of  the  City.  He  shall  have  supervision  of  the 
police  and  fire  departments  and  the  City  pound.  Pie  shall  per¬ 
form  such  other  duties  as  may  be  provided  by  the  Commission. 
He  shall  also  be  charged  with  the  duty  of  lighting  the  City. 

,  Paragraph  8:  The  Mayor  and  each  Commissioner  shall  have 
all  powers  necessary  or  incident  to  a  proper  discharge  of  the 
duties  hereby  imposed  upon  them  to  the  same  extent  as  though 
such  powers  were  specifically  set  forth  herein;  ptovided,  that 
each  of  said  officers  shall  be  subject  always  to  the  direction  and 
control  of  the  majority  of  the  Commissioners. 


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Section  8.*  No  person  shall  be  elected  or  appointed  to  any 
office  in  said  City  unless  he  possess  the  qualifications  of  an 
elector  under  the  laws  of  the  State  and  City,  and  has  resided 
twelve  months  next  preceding  the  election  within  the  limits 
of  the  City ;  and  no  person  shall  be  elected  or  appointed  to  the 
office  of  Ward  Alderman  unless,  in  addition  to  the  above  quali¬ 
fications  he  be  a  resident  of  the  ward  from  which  he  may  be 
elected  or  appointed  at  the  time  of  such  election  or  appointment, 
and  if  a  Ward  Alderman  shall  remove  from  the  ward  from  which 
he  was  elected  or  appointed,  his  office  shall  be  deemed  vacant. 

Section  9.**  At  the  City  election  to  be  held  on  the  second 
Tuesday  in  May,  1915,  and  at  each  City  election  thereafter,  there 
shall  be  elected  by  the  qualified  voters  of  the  City,  a  Mayor,  a 
Commissioner  of  Taxation,  a  Commissioner  of  Sanitation,  Parks 
and  Public  Property;  a  Commissioner  of  Streets  and  Public 
Improvements,  and  a  Commissioner  of  Fire  and  Police;  and  all 
such  elective  officers  shall  qualify  in  their  respective  office  to 
which  they  have  been  elected,  on  or  within  ten  days  after  the 
first  day  of  June,  after  their  election;  and  said  officers  shall 
hold  their  offices  for  two  years,  and  until  their  successors  have 
been  elected  and  qualified. 

Section  10.**  That  all  elective  officers  of  said  City  shall  be 
subject  to  removal  or  suspension  from  office  by  the  affirmative 
vote  of  three  Commissioners  for  incompetency,  official  miscon¬ 
duct,  or  habitual  drunkenness ;  provided,  that  no  elective  officer 
shall  be  removed  or  suspended  from  office  until  charges  in  writ- 


*Act  of  1903. 

**Amendment  of  1914. 


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ing-  are  fijed  against  him  and  he  is  given  an  opportunity  of  a 
fair  hearing  before  the  Board  of  Commissioners. 

Section  11.*  No  member  of  the  Board  of  Commissioners,  or 
other  City  official,  shall  hold  any  other  office  or  employment 
under  the  City,  and  no  Mayor,  Commissioner,  officer,  employee, 
or  servant  of  the  City  shall  be  directly  or  indirectly  interested 
in  any  purchase,  sale,  business,  work  or  contract,  the  expense, 
price  or  consideration  of  which  is  paid  from  the  City  treasury, 
or  by  an  assessment  levied  by  the  Board  of  Commissioners, 
nor  purchase  City  warrants  or  claims  against  the  City  or  any 
interest  therein,  nor  be  surety  of  any  person  or  persons  having  a 
contract  of  any  kind  or  business  with  the  City  for  the  perform¬ 
ance  of  which  security  may  be  rec[uired.  Any  Mayor,  Commis¬ 
sioner,  officers,  servant  or  agent  of  the  City  violating  this  sec¬ 
tion  shall  be  removed  from  office  and  discharged  from  service 
by  the  Board  of  Commissioners.  No  Commissioner  shall  vote 
upon  any  question  in  which  he  has  any  interest  distinct  from 
that  of  the  citizens  at  large,  but  in  such  case  he  shall  disclose 
such  interest  and  be  excused  from  voting. 

Section  12.**  Paragraph  1  :  All  elective  officers  under  this 
Charter  shall  be  elected  at  the  regular  municipal  election  which 
shall  be  held  on  the  second  Tuesday  in  May,  1925,  and  on  the 
second  Tuesday  in  May  every  two  years  thereafter.  Of  such 
election  at  least  twenty  days  previous  notice  shall  be  given  by 
proclamation,  and  such  election  shall  be  ordered  by  the  Mayor, 
and  in  case  of  his  failure  to  order  the  same  it  may  be  ordered 
by  the  Board  of  Commissioners,  or  any  two  members  thereof. 
All  elections  shall  be  held  in  accordance  with  the  general  laws 


*Amendment  of  1914. 

**Amendment  of  1923. 


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of  this  State,  and  the  qualifications  of  voters  shall  be  the  same 
as  prescribed  in  the  Constitution  and  Laws  of  this  State ;  the 
officers  of  all  elections  shall  be  elected  by  the  Commissioners 
in  open  meeting,  and  shall  be  qualified  voters  of  said  City  and 
of  the  precinct  in  which  they  are  to  serve ;  provided,  that  each 
candidate  for  Mayor,  or  any  two  candidates  for  Commissioner, 
shall  have  the  right  to  select  a  supervisor  in  and  for  each 
precinct,  who  shall  watch  the  marking  of  ballots  of  illiterate 
voters,  and  perform  such  other  duties  as  shall  be  prescribed  by 
the  General  Laws  of  the  State,  and  such  candidates  shall  furnish 
the  names  of  the  supervisors  to  said  Commissioners  at  least  five 
(5)  days  before  said  election.  All  officers  of  election  selected 
by  such  Commissioners  shall  be  selected  not  less  than  ten  days 
before  the  election,  and  no  person  shall  be  selected  as  an  officer 
of  ;TXcy«election  who  holds  any  office  of  trust,  or  profit,  or  employ¬ 
ment,  under  the  City  of  San  Antonio,  or  any  of  its  departments. 

Paragraph  2 :  Any  person  desiring  to  become  a  candidate 
for  Mayor  or  Commissioner,  shall  at  least  twenty  days  prior 
to  said  election,  file  with  the  City  Clerk  a  statement  announc¬ 
ing  his  candidacy,  and  name  therein  the  office  for  which  he 
may  be  a  candidate.  Immediately,  upon  the  expiration  of  the 
time  of  the  filing  of  statements  above  provided,  the  City  Clerk 
shall  cause  to  be  published  for  three  successive  days  in  some 
daily  newspaper  published  in  said  City,  the  names  of  the  candi¬ 
dates  as  they  are  to  appear  upon  the  ballot,  and  the  City  Clerk 
shall  cause  the  ballot  to  be  printed.  The  names  of  all  candi¬ 
dates  for  such  office  shall  be  arranged  alphabetically  on  said 
ballot,  according  to  their  surnames,  and  immediately  above  the 
names  of  such  candidates  shall  be  placed  the  words  “Vote  for 
one  only,”  and  the  voting  for  more  than  one  candidate  for 
any  office  shall  void  the  ballot  as  to  that  office,  but  not  as  to 


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any  other  office.  The  ballot  shall  be  printed  upon  plain,  sub¬ 
stantial  white  paper,  without  any  designation  or  remarks  of  any 
kind  and  shall  be  substantially  in  the  following  form : 

Official  Election  Ballot. 

Election  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio,  Texas,  held  on  the . 

day  of . 


For  Mayor. 
(Vote  for  one  only.) 


For  Commissioner  of  Taxation. 
(Vote  for  one  only.) 


For  Commissioner  of  Sanitation,  Parks  and  Public  Property. 

(Vote  for  one  only.) 


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For  Commissioner  of  Streets  and  Public  Improvements. 

(Vote  for  one  only.) 


For  Commissioner  of  Police  and  Fire. 
(Vote  for  one  only.) 


Paragraph  3 :  The  City  Clerk  shall  cause  to  be  delivered  to 
the  respective  judges  of  election,  on  the  day  before  said  election^ 
at  least  twice  the  number  of  ballots  as  there  may  appear  poll 
tax  receipts  and  exemption  certificates  to  have  been  issued  to 
the  voters  in  each  precinct. 

Paragraph  4 :  The  judges  of  election  shall  count  the  votes 
and  ascertain  the  number  of  votes  cast  in  their  respective  pre¬ 
cincts  for  each  of  the  candidates,  in  accordance  with  the  State 
election  laws  for  the  time  being,  and  make  returns  thereof  be¬ 
fore  twelve  o’clock,  noon,  of  the  next  succeeding  day,  upon 
proper  blanks  which  shall  be  furnished  by  said  City  for  that 


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purpose.  Said  returns  shall  be  made  in  quadruplicate,  one  of 
which  shall  be  delivered  to  the  Mayor,  one  to  the  City  Clerk, 
one  to  be  placed  in  the  box  before  sealing,  and  one  to  be  re¬ 
tained  by  the  presiding  officer.  On  the  day  following  the  elec¬ 
tion,  the  Mayor  and  Commissioners  shall  meet  and  canvass  the 
returns  and  declare  the  result ;  and  the  candidate  receiving  the 
largest  number  of  votes  for  each  office  shall  be  declared  elected. 

Paragraph  5 :  In  case  of  any  special  election  to  fill  vacan¬ 
cies,  the  same  rules  and  regulations  governing  general  elections 
shall  prevail. 

Section  13.*  Every  person  elected  or  appointed  to  office  in 
said  City  shall,  before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  his  office, 
take  and  subscribe  the  official  oath  prescribed  by  the  State 
Constitution  and  shall  give  such  bond  and  security  for  the  faith¬ 
ful  discharge  of  his  duties  as  may  be  required  by  the  ordinances 
of  the  City. 

Section  14.**  All  elective  officers  shall  qualify  within  ten 
(10)  days,  and  a  failure  to  do  so,  except  in  case  of  sickness,  shall 
of  itself  vacate  said  office,  and  an  election  shall  be  immediately 
called  to  fill  such  vacancy. 

Section  15.**  In  the  event  a  vacancy  in  the  office  of  Mayor 
or  any  Commissioner,  if  such  vacancy  occurs  within  one  (1) 


*Act  of  1903. 


**Amendment  of  1914. 


—17— 

year  of  the  next  election,  such  vacancy  shall  be  filled  by  the 
remaining  Commissioners,  but  if  the  period  of  time  from  the 
day  on  which  such  vacancy  first  occurs  to  the  next  City  election 
exceeds  one  (1)  year,  the  remaining  Commissioners  shall,  within 
( 10)  days,  order  a  special  election  to  fill  such  vacancy,  and  such 
election  shall  be  held  not  less  than  fifteen  (15),  nor  more  than 
twenty  (20),  days  after  such  election  is  ordered,  provided  that 
no  primary  shall  be  necessary  to  fill  such  vacancy. 

Section  16.*  The  Mayor  shall  nominate  the  appointive  of¬ 
ficers,  and  such  nominations  shall  be  subject  to  confirmation  by 
a  majority  of  the  remaining  Commissioners,  and  the  Mayor  shall 
not  vote,  except  in  the  case  of  a  tie,  upon  such  confirmation. 
The  appointive  officers  of  the  City  shall  be  as  follows : 

City  Attorney  and  his  assistants ; 

City  Physician  and  his  assistants ; 

City  Auditor  and  his  assistants  ; 

Purchasing  Agent ;  and 

City  Clerk  and  his  assistants. 

The  Judge  of  the  Corporation  Court  shall  be  nominated  and 
elected  by  the  Commissioner,  and  shall  have  authority  to  appoint 
a  clerk  and  a  bailiff  of  his  court. 

Paragraph  2 :  Each  member  of  the  Commission  shall  have  the 
right  to  propose  and  nominate  all  employees  in  the  department 
under  his  special  charge,  unless  otherwise  provided,  but  all  such 
nominations  shall  be  subject  to  the  confirmation  of  the  Com¬ 
missioners  by  a  majority  vote  therof. 

Paragraph  3 :  The  Commissioners  shall  have  the  right  by  a 
majority  vote  to  create  such  offices  or  employments  as  may  in 


*Amendment  of  1914. 


18— 


their  opinion  be  necessary,  and  impose  such  duties  upon  the 
holders  thereof  as  they  may  deem  proper,  and  shall  have  the 
right  to  abolish  any  office  or  employment  created  by  them,  by 
majority  vote  of  the  Commissioners. 

Section  16-a.  The  Fire  Department  of  the  City  of  San  An¬ 
tonio  shall  be  maintained  upon  the  two  platoon  or  double  shift 
system,  and  appropriate  action  shall  be  taken  by  the  Commis¬ 
sioners  carrying  this  provision  into  effect. 

Section  17.*  All  appointments  of  officers  or  employees,  ex¬ 
cept  day  laborers,  unless  otherwise  specified  in  the  order  making 
the  appointment,  shall  be  for  a  period  of  two  (2)  years.  And 
any  appointive  officer  or  employee  may  be  removed  or  dis¬ 
charged  only  by  a  majority  vote  of  the  Commissioners  on 
charges  preferred  in  writing  and  after  a  public  hearing  of  such 
charges  by  said  Commissioners.  All  salaries  and  wages  of  em- 
])loyees  shall  be  fixed  by  said  Commissioners. 

Section  18.*  The  elective  officers  of  said  City  shall  receive 
from  the  City  the  following  annual  compensation,  payable  in 
monthly  installments,  and  no  more :  The  Mayor,  Five  Thousand 
Dollars  ($5,000.00)  ;  and  each  Commissioner,  Four  Thousand 
Dollars  ($4,000.00)  ;  provided  that  the  salary  of  the  Mayor  or 
any  Commissioner  shall  not  be  paid  during  his  absence  from  the 
City,  unless  such  absence  is  on  the  business  of  the  City,  or  unless 
such  Mayor  or  Commissioner  is  excused  by  the  Board  of  Com¬ 
missioners. 

Paragraph  2 :  The  salaries  and  wages  of  all  other  officers,  em¬ 
ployees,  agents  and  servants  of  the  City  shall  be  fixed  by  the 
Commissioners. 

Section  18a.* — Paragraph  1  :  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any 
candidate  or  any  person  who  may  become  a  candidate  for  office 
or  any  office  or  applicant  for  appointment  to  any  office  under 


*Amendnient  of  1914. 


—19— 


the  government  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio,  directly  or  indirectly, 
to  offer  or  promise  any  person  or  persons  any  office  or  employ¬ 
ment  under  said  City  government  or  any  benefit  to  be  derived 
therefrom,  in  the  event  of  the  election  of  such  candidate  or  the 
appointment  of  such  applicant. 

Paragraph  2 :  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  such  candidate  or 
any  person  who  may  become  a  candidate  or  officer  of  aid  City 
to  promise  or  agree  to  use  his  influence  to  obtain  for  any  person 
any  office  or  employment  under  the  government  of  said  City  of 
San  Antonio. 

Paragraph  3 :  Any  violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this 
section  shall  be  a  misdemeanor  and  shall  be  grounds  for  re¬ 
moval  from  office. 

Section  19.*  The  Board  of  Commissioners  shall  have  the 
care,  management  and  control  of  the  City  and  its  finances,  and 
any  three  of  the  Commissioners  elected  shall  constitute  a  quorum 
for  the  transaction  of  all  business,  and  the  affirmative  vote  of 
three  of  such  Commissioners  shall  be  deemed  necessary  to  the 
adoption  of  any  motion,  resolution  or  ordinance,  or  the  appro¬ 
priation  of  money  or  the  passage  of  any  measure  of  any  kind. 

Section  20.*  The  Board  of  Commissioners,  or  a  majority 
thereof,  may  act  by  resolution  in  all  cases  execept  where  an 
ordinance  is  by  this  act  required ;  provided,  that  no  contract 
on  the  part  of  the  City  shall  be  made  or  authorized,  nor  any 
money  appropriated  from  the  funds  of  the  City  nor  any  franchise 
or  privilege  for  the  use  of  any  of  the  public  streets  or  other  pub¬ 
lic  places  of  said  City  be  granted  or  extended,  nor  any  lands  of 
said  City  be  conveyed  or  leased,  nor  authority  for  such  convey¬ 
ance  or  lease  given  otherwise  than  by  ordinance. 

Section  21.*  Said  Commissioners,  as  soon  as  practicable 
after  their  election  and  qualification  shall  arrange  for  regular 


*Amendment  of  1914. 


20— 


meetings  of  their  body,  which  meetings  shall  be  held  not  less 
than  four  (4)  times  in  any  month.  Special  meetings  may  be 
called  by  the  Mayor,  or  any  two  Commissioners.  All  questions 
acted  upon  by  said  Commissioners,  both  at  regular  and  special 
meetings,  shall  be  reduced  to  writing  and  recorded,  together 
with  the  yea  and  nea  vote  of  each  Commissioner  on  such  ques¬ 
tion.  All  Commissioners  may  vote  on  all  questions  coming 
before  said  meeting,  except  where  they  are  interested,  when  they 
shall  disclose  their  interest  and  not  be  allowed  to  vote.  Should 
any  Commissioner  fail  or  refuse  to  vote  on  any  question  or  be 
absent  from  any  meeting,  he  shall  be  recorded  as  voting  nay. 

Section  22*. — Paragraph  1  :  The  Commissioners  shall,  at  the 
beginning  of  their  term  of  office,  elect  by  ballot,  by  majority 
vote  of  the  members  thereof,  one  of  their  number  to  act  as 
Mayor  during  the  absence,  disability  or  removal  of  the  Mayor, 
and  the  Commissioner  so  chosen  shall  be  invested  with  all  the 
powers  and  shall  perform  the  duties  of  the  Mayor  during  such 
absence,  disability  to  act,  or  after  such  removal. 

Paragraph  2 :  In  the  event  of  the  vacancy  in  the  office  of 
Mayor,  the  mayor  protempore  shall  receive  the  salary  of  Mayor, 
but  not  other  compensation. 

Paragraph  3  :  That  no  Commissioner  nor  any  officer  or  em¬ 
ployee  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio  shall  be  connected  or  interested 
directly  or  indirectly  in  any  contract  with  the  City,  nor  shall  any 
Commissioner  of  the  City  receive  any  compensation  other  than 
is  herein  specially  provided. 

Section  23.*  The  Mayor  of  said  City  shall  be  the  chief 
executive  of  said  corporation,  and  shall  be  vigilant  and  active 
at  all  times  in  causing  the  laws  to  be  enforced  and  the  ordinances 
of  said  City  to  be  duly  executed.  He  shall  have  power  whenever 


*  Amendment  of  1914. 


—21— 


the  good  of  the  City  shall  require  it,  to  summon  special  meetings 
of  the  Board  of  Commissioners,  specifying  the  purpose  of  such 
call,  and  he  shall  from  time  to  time  communicate  to  the  Board 
of  Commissioners  all  such  information  and  recommend  such 
measures  as  may  tend  to  the  improvement  of  the  finances,  police, 
health,  cleanliness,  comfort,  ornament  and  general  welfare  of  the 
City. 

Section  24.*  The  Mayor  shall  sign  the  commissions  of  all 
persons  elected  or  appointed  in  the  City  government,  and  all 
warrants  drawn  upon  the  City  depository,  and  all  such  com¬ 
missions  and  warrants  shall  be  attested  by  the  City  Clerk.  He 
shall  have  power  when  he  deems  it  necessary,  to  require  any 
officer  to  exhibit  his  accounts  or  other  papers,  and  make  report 
to  the  Board  of  Commissioners  in  writing,  touching  any  subject 
or  matter  pertaining  to  his  office. 

Section  25.**  The  Mayor  shall  be  a  conservator  of  the  peace 
throughout  the  City,  and  shall  at  all  times  have  power  to  appoint 
any  number  of  special  policemen  that  he  may  deem  necessary  to 
preserve  the  peace  of  the  City,  and  dismiss  the  same  at  pleasure. 
He  may  call  on  every  male  inhabitant  of  the  City  over  eighteen 
years  of  age  and  under  fifty  years  of  age  to  aid  in  enforcing  the 
laws  and  ordinances  of  the  City,  and,  in  case  of  necessity,  to  call 
out  the  militia  within  the  City  to  aid  in  the  suppression  of  any 
riot,  or  in  the  enforcement  of  the  City  ordinances  ;  and  any  per¬ 
son  who  shall  not  obey  such  call,  shall  be  liable  to  such  fine  as 
may  be  provided  by  the  Council.  The  Mayor  shall  also  have  the 
power  to  remit  fines  and  to  grant  pardons  for  all  offenses  arising 
under  the  ordinances  of  the  City. 

Section  26.* — Paragraph  1.  Every  ordinance,  resolution  or 
motion  of  the  Board  of  Commissioners  shall,  before  it  takes 


*  Amendment  of  1914. 

**Act  of  1903. 


—22— 


effect,  be  presented  to  the  Mayor  for  his  approval  and  signature. 
If  he  approves  it,  he  shall  sign  it;  if  he  disapproves  it,  he  shall 
specify  his  objection  thereto  in  writing  within  two  (2)  days  and 
return  the  same  to  the  Board  of  Commissioners  with  such  dis¬ 
approval.  If  he  does  not  return  it  with  such  disapproval,  nor 
sign  it,  it  shall,  after  two  (2)  days  be  in  effect  and  force,  as  if 
he  had  approved  it. 

Paragraph  2 :  A  veto  by  the  Mayor  shall  suspend  the  act 
of  the  Board/  of  Commissioners  for  seven  (7)  days,  after  which 
time  the  Board  of  Commissioners  may  pass  the  same  over  the 
veto  of  the  Mayor  by  a  majority  vote,  provided,  however,  that  the 
affirmative  vote  of  four  Commissioners  shall  be  necessary  to 
pass  over  the  veto  of  the  Mayor  and  any  ordinance  whereby 
money  is  appropriated  out  of  any  of  the  funds  of  the  City,  but 
in  all  such  cases  the  Mayor  shall  not  be  deprived  of  his  right  to 
veto  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Commissioners  by  reason  of 
such  veto.  In  case  the  Mayor  veto  is  sustained,  the  matter  shall 
not  again  come  before  the  Board  of  Commissioners  within  six 
(6)  months,  except  with  the  unanimous  consent  of  the  Mayor 
and  all  Commissioners.  In  ordinances  or  resolutions  making 
appropriations,  the  Mayor  may  veto  any  or  every  item  therein, 
but  such  veto  shall  not  extend  to  the  items  not  vetoed,  and  those 
which  he  approves  shall  become  effective  and  those  which  he  dis¬ 
approves  shall  not  become  effective,  unless  passed  over  his  veto 
in  the  manner  above  specified. 

Section  27.*  The  Mayor  shall,  from  time  to  time,  make  such 
recommendations  to  the  Board  of  Commissioners  as  he  may 
deem  to  be  for  the  welfare  of  the  City,  and  he  shall,  each  year, 
immediately  before  taxes  are  levied,  submit  to  the  Board  of 
Commissioners  an  annual  budget  of  the  current  expenses  of  the 
City,  itemized  by  departments,  andi  include  such  an  amount  for 
contingent  expenses  as  he  may  deem  necessary;  provided,  that 


*Amendment  of  1914. 


—23— 


the  Board  of  Commissioners  shall  have  the  power  to  increase, 
diminish  or  omit  any  item  in  such  budget. 

Section  28.*  The  Mayor  shall,  within  thirty  (30)  days  after 
the  close  of  each  fiscal  year,  cause  to  be  published  in  pamphlet 
form  for  general  distribution,  an  exhibit  of  the  financial  con¬ 
dition  of  the  City  for  such  fiscal  year.  Such  exhibit  shall  specify 
the  amount  of  receipts  of  the  year  and  the  sources  thereof,  the 
amount  of  expenditures  in  each  department  of  the  City  and  for 
what  purposes  such  expenditures  were  made,  the  condition  of 
each  fund,  and  such  other  data  as  to  give  a  full  and  complete 
financial  statement  of  the  year. 

Section  29.**  The  City  Attorney  shall  represent  the  City  in 
all  litigation  to  which  the  City  may  be  a  party,  except  in  cases 
in  the  Corporation  Court  and  cases  appealed  therefrom,  but 
he  shall  have  supervision  of  all  such  cases.  He  shall  give  his 
opinion  when  called  upon,  on  all  legal  questions  arising  under 

the  City  government,  and  attend  meetings  of  the  Board  of  Com¬ 
missioners  to  give  his  advice  and  counsel  upon  the  legal  aspects 

of  any  question  pending  before  them,  when  so  requested. 

Section  30.**  The  Commissioner  of  Taxation  shall  make  up 
the  assessment  of  all  property  taxed  by  the  City  in  accordance 
with  this  Charter.  It  shall  be  his  duty  to  assess  within  the  time 
herein  fixed,  all  property  subject  to  taxation  in  said  City,  whether 
the  same  be  rendered  to  him  or  not,  and  to  make  out  a  list  of 
the  same.  He  shall  assess  all  property  at  its  fidl  value,  giving  the 
value  of  lands  and  improvements  separately,  and  shall  also  assess 
personal  property  of  whatever  nature,  including  franchises,  privi¬ 
leges  and  choses  in  action.  He  shall  describe  all  property 


*Act  of  1903. 

**Amendment  of  1914. 


-^24— 


assessed  sufficiently  to  identify  the  same,  giving  the  name  of  the 
last  known  owner  thereof,  and  if  the  owner  is  unknown,  he  must 
state  that  fact.  He  shall  assess  property  which  has  been  omitted 
from  assessments  during  past  years  upon  the  next  assessment 
roll  after  discovering  that  fact,  and  at  the  same  rate  such  pro¬ 
perty  should  have  been  assessed  for  such  past  years,  giving  the 
year  for  which  it  is  assessed,  and  the  taxes  thereon  shall  be  col¬ 
lected  in  the  same  manner  as  other  assessments.  The  assess¬ 
ment  rolls  and  tax  receipts  shall  be  made  up  and  filed  with  the 
-  Auditor  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  April  of  .each  year.  In  ad¬ 
dition  to  these  powers,  the  Commissioner  of  Taxation  shall 
have  all  the  rights  that  are  now  or  may  be  hereafter  conferred 
upon  county  assessors  of  this  State,  and  shall  perform  such 
other  duties  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  Board  of  Commission¬ 
ers. 

Section  31.*  The  Commissioner  of  Taxation  shall  collect  all 
advalorem  and  occupation  taxes  and  other  license  fees  and  dues 
as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  Board  of  Commissioners,  and  give 
receipts  therefor  upon  receipts  funrnished  him  through  the 
Auditor’s  office.  He  shall,  on  each  Monday,  furnish  a  state¬ 
ment  to  the  Auditor,  showing  the  total  collections  made  by  him 
during  the  previous  week  and  the  funds  to  which  they  belong, 
and  shall  deposit  with  the  City  depository  weekly,  by  means  of 
deposit  warrants,  all  moneys  collected  during  the  previous  week. 
He  shall  keep  a  daily  cash  book  in  his  office,  showing  by  items 
his  daily  receipts  and  make  to  the  Auditor  weekly,  monthly  and 
annual  reports  of  all  collections  made,  and  he  shall  perform  such 
other  duties  and  follow  such  other  rules  and  regulations  in  the 
transaction  of  the  business  of  his  office  as  may  be  prescribed  by 
the  Board  of  Commissioners. 

Section  32.* — Paragraph  1  :  All  funds  of  the  City  shall  be 
aeposited  in  one  or  more  depositories  selected  by  the  Com- 


*  Amendment  of  1914. 


—25— 


missioners  for  that  purpose,  and  all  warrants  and  checks  shall 
be  drawn  on  one  of  said  depositories  by  the  City  Clerk  and  shall 
be  countersigned  by  the  Mayor,  and  the  said  depository  before 
paying  any  such  check  or  warrant,  shall,  at  its  peril,  inform  itself 
that  the  same  is  drawn  pursuant  to  law. 


Paragraph  2 :  The  City  depository  shall  never  receive  directly 
or  indirectly  any  interest  on  any  warrant  or  overdraft  or  dis¬ 
count  any  said  warrant,  and  all  contracts  for  that  purpose  shall 
be  void;  provided,  however,  that  the  Board  of  Commissioners 
may  borrow  money  for  the  use  of  the  City  in  anticipation  of  the 
receipts  of  taxes  levied  for  any  one  (1)  year  and  the  current 
revenue  for  that  year,  and  pledge  as  security  for  such  loans  the 
uncollected  taxes  and  revenue  for  any  such  year,  and  shall  have 
the  right  to  contract  to  pay  interest  upon  all  amounts  so  borrowed 
by  said  Board  of  Commissioners  of  said  City. 


Paragraph  3 :  The  City  depository  shall  have  the  right  to 
refuse  payment  of  any  warrant  or  check  when  in  doubt  of  its 
validity,  and  require  it  to  be  confirmed  at  the  next  meeting  of 
the  Commission.  Should  the  Commission,  at  its  next  session, 
by  vote  of  the  majority  of  the  Commission,  endorse  such  check 
or  draf-t,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  City  depository  to  pay  the 
same  on  presentation ;  provided  there  is  attached  thereto  a  cer¬ 
tificate  from  the  Mayor  and  City  Secretary  that  such  action  was 
taken  by  the  Commission.  The  City  depository  shall  be  required 
to  make,  within  the  first  ten  (10)  days  of  each  month,  a  duplicate 
report  in  writing,  showing  all  receipts  for,  and  disbursements 
from  each  separate  fund  for  the  preceding  month  and  clearly 
showing  the  balances  to  the  credit  of  each  fund.  One  copy  of 
said  report  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  City  Auditor  and 
the  other  shall  be  filed  with  the  Mayor.  The  Auditor  shall  care¬ 
fully  examine  said  report  and  shall  certify  as  to  the  correctness 
thereof  to  the  Commissioners  within  five  (5)  days  after  receiv¬ 
ing  same. 


-26— 


Paragraph  4:  The  City  depository  shall  perform  all  duties 
prescribed  by  the  Commission.  The  City  depository  shall  give 
a  bond,  or  in  case  there  is  more  than  one  depository  selected, 
then  each  shall  give  a  bond,  or  they  shall  give  a  joint  bond, 
guaranteeing  the  City  from  all  loss,  in  such  form  as  the  Com¬ 
missioners  may  prescribe,  and  same  shall  not  be  less  than  the 
amount  of  average  daily  receipts  of  the  preceding  year,  and 
said  bond  shall  have  two  (2)  or  more  good  and  sufficient  sureties, 
or  may  be  given  by  some  company  authorized  to  write  surety 
bonds  under  the  laws  of  this  State. 

Section  33.*  The  Auditor  shall  be  an  expert  bookkeeper,  and 
shall  be  the  general  accountant  of  the  City,  shall  keep  regular 
accounts  of  all  receipts  and  disbursements,  incluring  accounts 
with  every  official  collecting  money  for  the  use  of  the  City,  ex¬ 
amine  all  bills  and  accounts  presented  for  payment,  keep  separate 
accounts  with  each  special  fund,  prepare  all  warrants  ordered  by 
appropriation  of  the  Board  of  Commissioners,  make  out  all 
deposit  warrants  for  money  to  be  deposited  with  the  depository, 
and  examine  and  audit  the  books  and  accounts  of  all  City  offi¬ 
cials.  At  the  end  of  each  (juarter  of  the  fiscal  year,  he  shall 
make  a  statement  showing  the  financial  condition  of  the  City, 
and  of  each  fund,  the  receipts  and  disbursements  during  the 
quarter,  and  said  statement  of  disbursements  shall  show  to 
whom,  and  for  what  purpose,  said  money  was  paid,  and  the 
departments  wherein  such  expenditures  were  made,  giving  the 
amount  expended  by  each,  including  approved  vouchers  against 
the  City,  the  source  of  all  receipts,  the  number  and  date  of  each 
warrant  drawn,  the  amount  thereof,  the  name  of  the  person  to 
whom  the  same  was  issued,  the  fund  from  which,  and  the  purpose 
for  which  it  was  drawn.  He  shall  then,  and  within  ten  days 
thereafter,  publish  in  a  daily  newspaper  of  the  City  of  San 
Antonio,  a  recapitulation  of  such  statement,  showing  in  con- 


*Amendment  of  1914. 


—27— 


densed  form  the  financial  condition  of  the  City  and  of  each 
fund,  the  receipts  and  disbursement  during  such  quarter,  and 
the  departments  wherein  such  expenditures  were  made,  giving 
the  amount  expended  by  each.  The  Auditor  shall  perform  such 
other  duties  and  follow  such  regulations  as  may  be  prescribed 
by  the  Board  of  Commissioners. 

Seection  34.*  The  Judge  of  the  Corporation  Court  shall  pre¬ 
side  over  the  Corporation  Court  as  judge,  and  such  Court  shall 
have  such  jurisdiction  and  powers  as  are  now  or  may  hereafter 
be  conferred  upon  corporation,  Alayors’  or  recorders’  courts  by 
the  laws  of  this  State.  The  recorder  shall  not  be  entitled  to 
any  fees  and  he  shall  hold  the  court  at  such  times  as  may  be  pre¬ 
scribed  by  the  Commissioners,  and  in  his  absence  or  disability, 
the  court  shall  be  held  by  Alayor  protempore,  or  some  Commis¬ 
sioner  elected  by  the  Board  of  Commissioners. 

Section  35.*  The  enacting  clause  of  all  ordinances  shall  be, 
“Be  it  ordained  by  the  Commissioners  of  the  City  of  San  An¬ 
tonio,”  but  this  may  be  omitted  where  the  ordinance  is  published 
in  book  or  pamphlet  form.  All  ordinances  and  resolutions  shall, 
after  final  passage,  become  effective  as  herein  provided. 

Section  36.*  All  ordinances  and  resolutions  shall  go  into  effect 
on  the  day  of  their  approval  by  the  Alayor,  or  on  the  day  of 
their  passage  over  the  Mayor’s  veto,  except  as  herein  provided, 
and  unless  such  ordinance  or  resolution  shall  in  terms  provide 
otherwise ;  provided,  however,  that  all  penal  ordinances  for  the 
violation  of  which  a  fine  may  be  imposed  by  the  judgment  of 
the  Corporation  Court,  shall  not  go  into  effect  until  the  tenth 
day  after  their  approval  by  the  Mayor  or  passage  by  the  Com¬ 
missioners  without  such  approval,  nor  until  they  have  been 
published  at  least  ten  times  in  some  newspaper  published  in 


*Amendment  of  1914. 


—28— 


said  City.  The  fact  of  such  pulication  may  be  proven  by  the 
affidavit  of  the  publisher,  to  be  returned  to  the  City  Clerk 
and  by  him  to  be  recorded  in  the  book  of  ordinances,  or  by  cer¬ 
tified  copy  of  such  affidavit  under  hand  of  the  City  Clerk  and 
seal  of  the  City,  or  by  other  competent  evidence.  The  City  Com¬ 
missioners  shall  cause  all  of  the  general  ordinances  of  the  City 
to  be  published  in  pamphelt  form,  and  printed  copies  thereof, 
P‘urporting  to  be  issued  by  the  City,  shall  be  prima  facie  evi¬ 
dence  of  such  ordinance  and  publication,  and  the  same  shall  be 
admissible  iib  evidence  in  all  courts  without  further  proof.  When 
necessary  for  the  public  health  or  safety,  penal  ordinance  may 
take  immediate  effect  upon  its  passage,  provided  a  statement  of 
its  urgency  is  contained  in  said  ordinance,  and  it  is  passed  by  a 
four-fifths  vote  of  the  Commissioners. 

Section  37.*  Certified  copies  of  the  records,  papers  and  books 
of  the  City  officers  shall  be  admissible  in  evidence  when  certi¬ 
fied  to  by  the  custodian  of  such  papers,  books  and  records,  and 
attested  by  him  under  his  seal,  if  he  have  one;  provided,  that 
for  issuing  such  certified  copies  the  City  shall  receive  such  fees 
as  may  be  provided^  by  ordinance. 

Section  38.*  Every  citizen  shall,  during  office  hours,  have 
the  right  to  examine  any  and  all  books,  vouchers,  records  and 
papers  belonging  to  the  City  and  in  custody  of  anw  of  its  officers, 
and  shall  have  the  right  to  take  copies ;  and  it  shall  be  the  duly 
of  the  proper  custodian  of  such  papers  and  records  to  produce 
and  exhibit  any  such  papers  or  records  demanded  to  be  inspected 
by  any  such  citizen. 

Section  39.**  The  head  of  each  department  of  the  City  gov¬ 
ernment  shall  make  to  the  Mayor,  each  and  every  year  at  such 


*Act  of  1903. 

**Amendment  of  1914. 


—29— 


times  as  he  may  request  it,  a  report,  showing  the  operations  of 
the  department  for  the  preceding  year,  and  accompanying  such 
report  and  submitted  therewith  shall  be  a  detailed  estimate  of 
the  operating  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  depai^tment  for 
the  current  year.  These  reports  shall  be  transmitted  by  the 
Mayor  and  be  made  a  part  of  the  Mayor’s  report  to  the  Board  of 
Commissioners,  which  report  shall  be  made  not  later  than  the 
first  day  of  March  of  each  and  every  year,  at  which  time  the 
Mayor  shall  make  up  and  transmit  to  the  Board  of  Commis¬ 
sioners  the  annual  budget,  with  such  recommendations  concern¬ 
ing  the  increasing  or  decreasing  of  department  estimates  as  in 
his  judgment  may  best  serve  the  interests  of  the  City. 

Section  40.*  Any  debt  hereafter  contracted  by  any  officer 
of  the  City,  or  by  any  person  on  account  of  the  City,  the  pay¬ 
ment  of  which  has  not  been  previously  provided  for  by  ordinance 
duly  adopted  by  the  City  Council,  shall  be  absolutely  null  and 
void  and  uncollectible  at  law  or  in  equity,  and  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  City  Attorney  to  plead  this  statute  to  defeat  the 
collection  or  enforcement  of  any  such  claim  or  debt. 

/ 

Section  41.**  No  officer  of  the  City  shall  ever  be  entitled  to 
costs  or  fees  of  office  except  for  the  use  of  the  City,  and  all 
penalties,  forfeitures,  fines,  costs  and  fees  of  office  to  accrue 
hereafter  shall  be  paid  into  the  City  depository,  and  no  money 
shall  be  drawn  from  the  depository  except  in  the  pursuance  of  a 
specific  appropriation  of  the  Commissioners ;  nor  shall  any  ap¬ 
propriation  for  private  or  individual  purposes  be  made. 

Section  42.**  No  execution  shall  be  issued  or  levied  by  virtue 
of  any  judgment  that  may  be  recovered  against  the  City,  but 
the  Commissioners  shall  provide  for  the  payments  of  judgments 


*Act  of  1903. 

**Amendment  of  1914. 


—30— 


in  the  levying  of  taxes  next  after  the  final  recovery  of  such 
judgments  from  the  City.  No  person  shall  be  incompetent  as  a 
judge,  justice  or  juror  by  reason  of  his  being  an  inhabitant  or 
freeholder  in  said  City  or  subject  to  taxation  by  said  City  in  any 
action  or  proceeding  in  which  said  City  may  be  a  party  at  in¬ 
terest  ;  and  no  police  officer  shall  be  liable  for  damages  for  any 
act  committed  in  the  proper  discharge  of  his  duties. 

Section  43.*  Lands,  houses,  moneys,  debts  due  the  City,  per¬ 
sonal  and  real  property,  and  assets  of  every  description  belonging 
to  the  City,  shall  be  exempt  from  execution  and  sale ;  but  the 
City  shall  make  provision,  by  taxation  or  otherwise,  for  the 
payment  of  any  and  all  indebtedness  due  (by)  the  City. 

Section  44.*  No  writ  of  garnishment  shall  issue  against  the 
City  to  subject  or  seize  any  debt  due  or  which  may  hereafter 
become  due  from  the  City  to  any  person  or  corporation,  or  any 
claim  or  demand  upon  any  fund  in  the  hands  of  said  City  or 
any  of  its  officers ;  nor  shall  the  City  or  any  of  its  officers  or 
agents,  be  required  to  answer  any  writ  of  garnishment. 

Section  45.*  The  City  shall  not  be  required  to  give  any  bond 
for  security  for  costs  or  any  other  security  in  any  suit  or  action 
brought  by  or  against  it,  or  in  any  proceeding  to  which  it  may 
be  a  party  in  any  court  in  this  State ;  and  said  City  shall  have 
the  remedies  of  appeal  and  writ  of  error  to  all  courts  in  this 
State  without  bond  or  security  of  any  kind,  but  said  City  shall 
be  liables  in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same  extent  as  if  the 
bond,  undertaking  or  security  required  in  other  cases  had  been 
really  executed  and  given. 

Section  46.**  Before  the  City  of  San  Antonio  shall  be  liable 
for  damages  of  any  kind,  the  person  injured,  or  some  one  in 


*Act  of  1903. 

**Amendment  of  1911. 


—31— 


behalf  of  such  person,  shall  give  the  Mayor  notice  in  writing  of 
such  injury  within  twenty  days  after  the  same  has  been  received, 
stating  in  such  notice  when,  where  and  how  the  injury  occurred 
and  the  extent  thereof ;  provided,  however,  that  in  no  event  shall 
the  City  of  San  x4ntonio  be  liable  in  damages  to  any  one  on 
account  of  any  defest  in,  obstruction  on,  or  anything  else  in 
connection  with  any  sidewalk  in  the  City.  And  provided,  further, 
that  in  order  to  hold  the  City  of  San  Antonio  liable  in  damages 
to  any  one  on  account  of  any  injury  caused  by  any  defect  in, 
obstruction  on,  or  anything  else  in  connection  with  any  street, 
alley  or  plaza,  outside  of  the  said  sidewalks  along  the  same,  it 
must  be  shown  that  the  Mayor  or  some  person  having  superin¬ 
tendence  or  control  of  the  work  on  the  streets  for  the  City  had 
actual  knowledge  or  actual  notice  of  such  defect,  obstruction  or 
other  thing  for  a  sufficient  length  of  time  before  such  injury 
was  received,  to  have  remedied  such  condition  of  the  street,  alley 
or  plaza  before  the  injury  was  received. 

Section  47.*  Upon  recommendation  of  the  City  Attorney,  the 
Commissioners  may  compromise  any  suit  filed  or  pending 
against  the  City,  but  in  all  such  cases  the  City  Attorney  shall 
file  with  the  City  Clerk  his  reasons,  in  writing,  for  such  com¬ 
promise. 

Section  48.**  All  rights,  actions,  penalities  and  forfeitures 
in  suits  or  otherwise  which  have  accrued  under  the  law  here¬ 
tofore  in  force,  shall  be  vested  in  and  possessed  by  the  corpora¬ 
tion  hereby  created,  and  no  suit  pending  shall  be  affected  by  the 
passage  of  this  Act,  but  the  same  shall  be  prosecuted  or  defended, 
as  the  case  may  be,  by  the  corporation  hereby  created. 

Section  49.**  The  cemetery  lots  which  have  been  or  may 
hereafter  be  laid  out  and  sold  by  said  City  for  private  places 


*Amendment  of  1914. 

**Act  of  1903. 


32— 


of  burial,  shall,  with  the  appurtenances,  forever  be  exempt  from 
taxes,  executions,  attachments  and  forced  sales. 

Section  50.*  The  present  elective  officers  of  the  City  of  San 
Antonio  shall  continue  to  perform  the  duties  of  their  offices,  un¬ 
less  removed  as  herein  provided,  until  the  next  general  election 
under  this  Charter,  and  all  ordinances  of  the  City  of  San  An¬ 
tonio  now  in  force  not  contrary  to  the  provisions  of  this  Act 
and  the  laws  of  this  State  shall  continue  in  force  until  repealed. 


ARTICLE  II. 

POWERS  OF  CITY  COUNCIL. 

Section  51.**  The  Board  of  Commissioners  shall  have  the 
care,  management  and  control  of  the  City,  its  property  and 
finances,  and  shall  have  power  to  enact,  ordain,  alter,  modify 
or  repeal  any  and  all  ordinances  not  repugnant  to  this  Charter  and 
the  Constitution  and  laws  of  the  State,  and  shall  have  power,  by 
ordinance : 

Section  52.***  To  provide  for  the  payment  of  the  current  ex¬ 
penses  of  the  City,  and  direct  that  warrants  be  drawn  for  the 
same  against  the  current  revenue  of  the  current  fiscal  year,  and 
every  warrant  so  drawn  against  said  revenue  shall  be  a  lien  upon 
said  revenue  of  said  fiscal  year  whenever  the  same  may  be  col¬ 
lected,  and  the  said  warrant  shall  be  numbered  and  paid  in  the 
order  of  numbers  and  months,  that  is,  the  warrants  drawn  for 
the  current  expenses  of  the  first  month  of  the  fiscal  year  shall 


*Act  of  1903. 

**Amendment  of  1914. 

*** Amendment  of  1907. 


—33— 


be  paid  before  any  warrants  drawn  for  the  current  expenses  of 
the  second  month  of  the  fiscal  year,  and  so  on  throughout  the 
year.  Warrants  drawn  for  the  current  expenses  of  a  fiscal  year 
shall  not  exceed  the  amount  of  income  for  such  fiscal  year,  and 
such  income  shall  be  based  upon  the  assessed  value,  the  tax  rate 
thereon  and  other  revenue  of  the  City  from  other  sources.  The 
revenue  and  income  of  the  City  for  any  fiscal  year  shall  not  be 
used  for  the  payment  of  any  debts  or  obligations  incurred  in.  for, 
or  during  any  other  fiscal  year  until  all  current  debts  and  obliga¬ 
tions  for  such  year  have  first  been  paid. 

Section  53.*  To  borrow  money  on  the  credit  of  the  City  and 
issue  bonds  therefor  for  permanent  public  improvements  ;  but, 
every  proposition  to  borrow ‘money,  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  sub¬ 
mitted  to  the  qualified  taxpaying  voters  of  the  City,  and  shall 
distinctly  specify  the  purpose  for  which  the  loan  is  desired,  and 
the  permanent  public  improvements  to  be  constructed ;  and  if 
said  proposition  be  sustained  by  a  majority  of  the  votes  cast, 
such  loan  shall  be  lawful  ;  provided,  that  several  improvements 
of  different  and  distinct  character  and  nature  may  be  submitted 
in  one  proposition.  All  bonds  shall  specify  for  what  purpose 
they  were  issued,  and,  when  sold,  shall  net  the  City  not  less  than 
their  par  value,  with  accrued  interest  to  the  date  of  payment 
of  the  proceeds  into  the  City  depository,  and  the  .bonds  may  be 
negotiated  in  lots,  as  the  Board  of  Commissioners  may  determine 
and  direct.  No  debt  shall  be  contracted  for  the  payment  whereof 
such  bonds  or  lot  thereof  are  issued  until  such  bonds  or  lot 
thereof  shall  have  been  disposed  of  and  the  proceeds  paid  into 
the  City  depository  or  the  contractor  undertaking  such  public  im¬ 
provements  shall  agree  to  take  said  bonds  in  payment  for  the 
work  to  be  performed ;  and  no  debt  shall  ever  be  created  by  said 
City  unless  at  the  same  time  provision  be  made  to  assess  and 


*Amendment  of  1914. 


—34 


collect  annually  a  sufficient  sum  to  pay  the  interest  thereon  and 
create  a  sinking  fund  of  at  least  two  per  cent  thereon.  The  in¬ 
terest  and  sinking  fund  shall  not  be  diverted  or  used  for  any 
other  purpose  than  to  pay  the  principal  and  interest  on  such 
bonds  and  the  Cit}/  depository  shall  honor  no  draft  drawn  on 
said  fund,  except  to  pay  the  interest  or  to  redeem  the  bonds  for 
which  it  was  provided.  The  rate  of  tax  for  interest  and  sinking 
fund  on  the  outstanding  bonded  debt  of  the  City  shall  never  ex¬ 
ceed  one  dollar  on  the  one  hundred  dollars  valuation  annually, 
and  the  rate  of  interest  paid  shall  not  exceed  five  per  cent  and 
no  loan  shall  be  made  for  any  other  purpose  or  purposes  than 
those  connected  with  the  corporation  of  said  City.  No  loan  shall 
be  made  to  aid  any  private  enterprise,  railroad  or  undertaking 
not  under  the  management  and  control  of  the  Board  of  Commis¬ 
sioners.  The  sinking  fund  for  the  redemption  of  any  loan  or  debt 
shall  be  invested  as  fast  as  it  accumulates,  in  United  States  in¬ 
terest  bearing  bonds,  or  bonds  of  the  State  of  Texas,  or  Bexar 
‘  County,  Texas,  or  in  bonds  of  the  City,  or  of  any  improvement 
district  thereof  and  the  interest  of  such  bonds,  shall  be  re¬ 
invested  ;  and  such  bonds  shall  be  sold  when  necessary  to  pay 
interest  or  principal  of  the  bonds  issued  under  the  provisions 
of  this  section. 

Section  54.*  To  borrow  money  on  the  credit  of  any  improve¬ 
ment  district  of  the  City  and  issue  bonds  therefor  for  perma¬ 
nent  public  improvements  in  such  districts,  and  to  this  end  the 
Commissioners  may  divide  the  City,  or  any  portion  thereof,  into 
improvement  districts,  clearly  defining  the  limits  of  each  district ; 
but  every  proposition  to  borrow  money  on  the  credit  of  any  im¬ 
provement  district  for  permanent  public  improvements  therein 
shall  be  submitted  to  the  qualified  taxpaying  voters  living  and 
owning  property  in  such  district,  and  shall  distinctly  specify  the 
purpose  for  which  the  loan  is  desired  and  the  permanent  public 


*Amendment  of  1914. 


—35— 


improvements  to  be  constructed,  but  several  improvements  of 
different  and  distinct  character  and  nature  may  be  submitted  in 
one  proposition.  If  said  proposition  be  sustained  by  a  majority 
of  the  votes  cast  in  such  election  in  such  district,  such  loan  shall 
be  lawful.  All  bonds  shall  specify  for  what  purpose  they  were 
issued,  shall  bear  interest  at  a  rate  of  not  greater  than  five  per 
cent  per  annum,  and,  when  sold,  shall  not  net  less  than  par  value, 
with  accrued  interest  to  date  of  payment  of  the  proceeds  into  the 
City  depository,  and  such  bonds  may  be  negotiated  in  lots,  as 
the  Board  of  Commissioners  may  decree.  No  debt  shall  be  con¬ 
tracted  for  the  payment  whereof  such  bonds  are  issued  until 
such  bonds  shall  have  been  disposed  of,  and  no  debt  shall  ever 
be  created  against  any  such  improvement  district  unless  at  the 
same  time  provision  be  made  to  assess  and  collect  annually  upon 
the  property  in  such  improvement  district  a  sum  sufficient  to 
pay  the  interest  on  such  bonds  and  create  a  sinking  fund  of  at 
least  two  per  cent  thereon.  The  interest  and  sinking  fund  tax 
which  shall  be  collected  annually  from  the  property  in  such  im¬ 
provement  district  for  such  bonds  shall  be  in  addition  to  the 
other  current  taxes,  levied  by  the  City,  and  shall  be  kept  separate 
by  the  City  depository  from  other  funds,  and  shall  not  be  diverted 
or  used  for  any  other  purpose  than  to  pay  interest  and  principal 
on  such  bonds  and  the  City  depository  shall  honor  no  draft  on 
said  fund  except  to  pay  the  interest  and  redeem  the  bonds  for 
which  it  was'  provided.  The  sinking  fund  for  such  bonds  shall 
be  invested  as  provided  in  Section  53  of  this  Charter,  or  bonds 
of  such  improvements  district.  The  tax  levied  for  interest  and 
sinking  fund  for  bonds  issued  for  permanent  public  improve¬ 
ments  in  any  district  shall  not  exceed  twenty-five  cents  on  the 
one  hundred  dollars  valuation  annually. 


36^ 


Section  55.*  To  provide  for  the  payment  of  the  debts  and 
expenses  of  the  City  and  to  issue  refunding  bonds  for  the  pur¬ 
pose  of  redeeming  bonds  bearing  a  higher  rate  of  interest  or 
paying  matured  bonds ;  but  the  bonded  debt  of  the  City  shall 
not  be  increased,  nor  any  other  evidences  of  debts  issued,  unless 
authorized  by  a  vote  of  the  qualified  taxpayers,  as  hereinbefore 
provided,  except  as  provided  for  in  Section  52  hereof ;  and  the 
bonded  debt  of  the  City  shall  never  exceed  ten  per  cent  of  the 
total  assessed  value  of  the  property  in  the  City  according  to  the 
last  assessment  roll,  provided,  (that  in  ;€stimating  the  total 
bonded  debts  of  the  City,  the  bonded  debt  of  any  improvement 
district  shall  not  be  counted. 

Section  56.**  To  regulate  and  prescribe  the  duties  and  powers 
and  compensation  of  all  appointed  officers,  agents  and  employees 
of  the  City,  and  to  require  bonds  of  all  officers  or  agents  of  the 
City,  whether  elected  or  appointed ;  to  create  any  office  or  agent 
deemed  necessary  for  the  good  government  and  interest  of  the 
City,  and  to  change  and  prescribe  additional  duties  of  all  offi¬ 
cers  and  agents ;  provided,  that  the  powers  prescribed  by  this 
Charter  for  elective  officers  shall  not  be  diminished ;  and  pro¬ 
vided  further,  that  the  City  Clerk  and  all  other  assistants  shall 
have  power  to  administer  oaths  and  affirmations,  and  give  certi¬ 
ficates  thereof. 

Section  57.***  To  provide  the  City  and  its  inhabitants  with 
water  and  light  for  public  and  private  use,  and  to  this  end  the 
Commissioners  shall  have  power  to  provide  for  the  construction 
by  the  City  or  any  person  for  it,  a  water  and  electric  light  or 
gas  plant,  or  a  combined  plant  for  any  and  all  said  purposes ;  to 
purchase  any  such  plants  that  are  now  or  may  hereafter  be 


*Act  of  1903. 

** Amendment  of  1907. 

***.\mendnient  of  1914. 


—37— 


created  in  said  City  ;  to  regulate  and  prescribe  the  rates,  prices 
and  terms  at  which  water,  electricity  and  gas  shall  be  furnished 
for  public  and  private  purposes  to  the  City  and  its  inhabitants 
by  water,  electric  light  and  gas  companies,  public  or  private,  that 
are  now  or  may  hereafter  be  established  in  said  City ;  to  contract 
with  water,  electric  and/  gas  companies  for  furnishing  water, 
electricity  and  gas  to  the  City  for  public  purposes. 

Section  58.*  To  build,  construct,  contract  to  be  constructed, 
or  acquire  any  of  the  public  utilities  of  the  City,  such  as  gas, 
water,  telephone,  street  railway  and  electric  plants,  subways  or 
underground  conduit  systems  for  electric  light,  power,  tele¬ 
phone,  telegraph,  or  other  wires  used  for  the  purpose  of  transmit¬ 
ting  an  electric  service,  and  such  utilities  and  systems  may  be 
purchased  and  constructed  by  a  payment  in  cash  of  twenty-five 
per  cent  of  the  price  agreed  upon,  and  the  balance  in  annual  in¬ 
stallments,  including  interest,  to  be  paid  out  of  the  revenues  of 
such  utility ;  and  such  work  so  constructed;  or  purchased  shall 
stand  pledged  for  payment  of  the  amount  due  thereon  ;  provided, 
that  no  expenditure  for  such  purpose  shall  be  made  unless  the 
proposition  for  the  acquisition  or  construction  of  the  same  is 
first  submitted  to  a  vote  of  the  qualified  property  taxpayers,  at 
an  election  to  be  held  for  the  purpose  of  voting  thereon,  and  a 
majority  of  such  voters  shall  vote  in  favor  of  such  proposition 
and  the  Board  of  Commissioners  shall  have  the  power  to  carry 
out  all  the  terms  of  this  section  by  ordinance. 

Section  59.**  To  do  all  acts  and  make  all  regulations  which 
may  be  deemed  necessary  for  the  protection  and  promotion  of 
health  or  the  suppression  of  disease,  and  abate  all  nuisances 
which  may  impair  of  affect  the  public  health  or  comfort,  in  such 
manner  as  may  be  deemed  expedient. 


*Amendment  of  1914. 

**Act  of  1903. 


—38— 


Section  60.*  To  prevent  the  introduction  of  contagious  dis¬ 
eases  into  the  City,  to  make  quarantine  laws  for  that  purpose 
and  to  enforce  the  same  within  five  miles  of  the  City,  and  to 
make  all  ordinances  and  regulations  to  prevent  the  spread  of  any 
contagious  diseases  within  the  City  limits ;  to  enforce  vaccination 
and  to  establish  hospitals  and  pest  houses,  and  to  regulate  the 
establishment  of  private  hospitals. 

Section  61.*  To  direct  the  location  of  breweries,  tanneries, 
blacksmith  shops,  foundaries,  livery  stables  and  manufacturing 
establishments ;  to  direct  and  regulate  the  management,  con¬ 
struction  and  cleaning,  and  restrain,  abate  and  prohibit  within  the 
City,  slaughtering  establishments,  stockyards,  hide  houses,  ware¬ 
houses,  stables  and  privies,  or  establishments  for  keeping  or 
curing  hides,  tallow,  offal  and  such  other  substances  as  may  be 
rendered,  and  all  other  establishments  or  places  where  noisome, 
offensive  or  unwholesome  matter  is  liable  to  accumulate. 

Section  62.*  To  require  the  owner,  agent  or  occupant  of  any 
grounds,  lots,  yards,  private  drains,  sinks  or  privies,  to  fill  up, 
cleanse,  alter,  repair,  fix  and  improve  the  same  and  require  all 
owners  of  property  to  connect  with  the  City  sewers. 

Section  63.**  To  regulate,  direct  and  control  the  erection  and 
construction  of  telegraph  and  telephone  lines  and  electric  light 
posts,  poles  and  wires,  and  to  require  the  laying  of  all  telegraph, 
telephone,  electric  light  and  all  other  wires  underground  in  such 
manner  and  at  such  depth  and  with  such  insulation  as  the  Com¬ 
missioners  may  deem  necessary  and  proper;  to  regulate,  direct 
and  control  the  laying  and  repairing  of  all  gas,  water  and  oil 
pipes  in  the  streets,  alleys,  sidewalks,  and  public  places  of  the 


*Act  of  1903. 

**Amendment  of  1914. 


39- 


City,  and  to  regulate  the  prices  to  be  charged  by  telephone  com¬ 
panies  for  services  to  the  public. 

Section  64.*  To  provide  for  the  erection  of  all  useful  and 
necessary  buildings  for  the  use  of  the  City,  and  for  the  pro¬ 
tection  and  safety  of  all  property  belonging  to  the  City,  and  to 
provide  for  the  safety  and  protection  of  private  property  where 
damages  are  likely  to  accrue  by  the  action  of  the  elements. 

Section  65.*  To  establish  a  police  force  and  regulate  the 
same;  to  erect,  establish  and  regulate  one  or  more  prisons,  work- 
houses,  house  of  correction  and  poor  houses,  and  provide  for  the 
government  and  support  of  the  same. 

Section  66.**  To  establish,  erect  and  build  public  libraries 
and  provide  funds  for  the  maintenance  of  the  same,  and  that 
.such  libraries  shall  be  managed  by  a  board  of  trustees  and  the 
City  Council  shall  annually  levy  such  a  tax  as  will  yield  at  least 
ten  thousand  dollars  ($10,000.00)  for  the  support  and  main¬ 
tenance  of  what  is  known  as  the  “Carnegie  Library, “  in  said 
City,  and  said  fund  shall  be  protected  for  the  uses  of  said  li¬ 
brary  in  the  same  manner  as  the  interest  and  sinking  fund  for 
the  benefit  of  the  bonded  debt  as  now  protected  by  law. 

Section  67.*  To  provide  measures  to  keep  the  waters  of  the 
river  and  streams  pure,  to  remove  all  obstructions  or  dams  in 
said  river  or  streams  within  the  limits  of  the  City  ;  to  widen  and 
deepen  the  channel  of  said  river  and  streams,  to  prevent  the 
erection  of  factories  or  establishments  on  the  banks  of  any 
stream  or  ditches  which  will  befoul  or  make  impure  the  waters 
of  such  river  or  ditches  ;  to  alter  and  establish  the  channels  of 


*Act  of  1903. 

**Amendment  of  1911. 


40— 


any  streams,  ditches  or  water  courses  within  the  limits  of  the 
City  when  the  health,  safety  or  convenience  of  the  City  requires 
such  to  be  done,  and  to  wall  up  or  cover  ditches  or  canals ;  to 
make,  regulate  and  abolish  irrigation  ditches  and  have  full  con¬ 
trol  of  the  same  and  to  fix  the  terms  and  prices  to  be  charged  for 
water  therefrom. 

Section  68.*  To  establish,  erect,  construct,  regulate  and  keep 
in  repair  bridges,  culverts,  se\vers,  sidewalks  and  cross  ways, 
and  to  regulate  the  use  of  the  same  and  abate  any  obstruction  or 
encroachments  thereon. 

Section  69.*  To  provide  for  the  inspection  of  meat,  fish,  vege¬ 
tables,  fruit  and  every  or  anything  offered  for  sale  in  the  market 
places  or  elsewhere  in  said  City ;  to  provide  for  the  inspection, 
before  slaughter,  of  all  animals  intended  for  slaughter  or  to  be 
offered  for  sale  after  slaughter,  in  said  City ;  to  prescribe  rules 
and  regulations  as  to  the  place  and  manner  in  which  all  animals 
are  slaughtered,  and  charge  and  provide  license  fees  for  such  in¬ 
spection ;  to  require  the  hides  and  skins  of  animals  slaughtered 
for  sale  in  said  City  to  be  exhibited,  and  to  provide  for  the 
keeping  of  a  record  of  the  marks  and  brands  of  such  animals ; 
to  prohibit  and  regulate  the  sale  within  the  City  of  any  meats 
slaughtered  outside  the  limits  of  the  City ;  to  erect  and  maintain 
market  houses  and  regulate  everything  relating  to  butchers,  to 
establish  and  maintain  a  standard  of  the  quality  of  milk  sold  in 
the  City  and  provide  penalties  for  the  violation  thereof. 

Section  70.*  To  regulate  the  sale  wdthin  the  City  of  cocaine, 
morphine,  opium,  chloral,  or  any  other  poisonous  drugs,  and 
provide  that  the  same  shall  be  sold  only  upon  the  prescription  of 
a  licensed  physician. 


*Act  of  1903. 


--bi¬ 


section  71*  To  provide  for  the  purchase,  maintenance,  regu¬ 
lation  and  improvement  of  public  parks,  plazas,  grounds  and 
cemeteries  of  the  City;  to  direct  and  regulate  the  planting  and 
preserving  of  ornamental  and  shade  trees  on  the  streets,  side¬ 
walks  and)  public  grounds,  and  to  establish  and  maintain  zoologi¬ 
cal  gradens,  and  to  provide  public  musical  concerts  in  the  City 
parks  and  plazas. 

Section  72*  To  make  regulations  for  the  inspection  and  con¬ 
struction  of  buildings  and  to  cause  unsafe  buildings  to  be  made 
safe  or  removed,  and  to  prescribe  and  prohibit  the  use  of  certain 
materials ;  to  prescribe  the  thickness  of  walls  and  height  of 
buildings ;  to  require  every  person  desiring  to  erect  a  building 
m  the  City  to  take  out  a  permit  for  the  same,  and  to  keep  a 
register  of  all  buildings,  both  private  and  public,  erected  and  the 
cost  thereof,  of  the  kind  and  material  used,  and  of  the  intended 
use  of  such  buildings. 

Section  73*  To  restrain  and  regulate  the  selling  or  giving 
away  of  any  intoxicating  or  malt  liquors  by  any  person,  firm 
or  corporation,  although  duly  licensed  by  the  State,  when  the 
place  of  business  of  such  person,  firm  or  corporation  is  con¬ 
nected  with  a  house  wherein  gaming  is  permitted  to  be  carried 
on  where  the  same  is  connected  with  a  vaudeville  or  other  place 
where  theatrical  performances  are  held  by  whatever  name  called. 

Section  74*  To  provide  and  cause  to  be  taken  an  enumera¬ 
tion  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  City. 

Section  75  *  To  license  and  regulate  billiard  tables,  pin  alleys 
and  ball  alley,  to  suppress  and  restrain,  disorderly  houses,  ball 
rooms,  bawdy  houses,  houses  of  prostitution  and  assignation, 
gambling  and  gambling  houses,  lotteries,  and  all  fraudulent 
devices  and  practices  and  all  kinds  of  indecencies. 

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*Act  of  1903. 


42- 


Section  76.*  To  license  and  regulate  hackmen,  draymen, 
drivers  of  omnibuses  and  baggage  wagons,  porters  and  all  others 
pursuing  like  occupation  with  or  without  vehicles,  and  prescribe 
their  charges,  and  to  regulate,  license  and  restrain  runners  for 
hotels,  stages  and  public  houses. 

Section  77.*  To  prohibit  and  punish  the  owners,  lessees  and 
agents  of  theatres  or  other  places  where  indecent,  lewd  or  im¬ 
modest  dramatic  or  theatrical  representations  are  given,  and 
adopt  summary  measures  for  the  removal  or  suppression  of  all 
such  entertainments  and  establishments ;  to  license  and  regulate, 
suppress  and  prohibit  hawkers,  peddlers,  panwbrokers,  and  regu¬ 
late  keepers  of  theatres  and  other  exhibitions,  shows  or  amuse¬ 
ments. 

Section  78.*  To  restrain,  prohibit  and  punish  vagrants,  mendi¬ 
cants,  street  beg'gars,  prostitutes  and  gamblers,  and  punish  the 
keepers  of  all  houses  of  prostitution  and  games  and  gambling 
devices  with  as  great  a  penalty  as  the  same  is  punished  by  the 
statutes  of  the  State.  The  Corporation  Court  of  the  City  of  San 
Antonio  shall  have  concurrent  jurisdiction  with  Justice  Courts  of 
all  such  misdemeanors  when  committed  within  the  corporate 
limits  of  said' City. 

Section  79.*  To  establish  standard  weights  and  measures  to 
be  used  within  the  City  in  all  cases  not  othewise  provided  by 
law;  to  require  all  traders  and  dealers  in  merchandise  or  property 
of  any  kind  which  is  sold  by  weight  and  measure  to  cause  their 
weights  or  measures  to  be  tested  and  sealed^  but  the  standard  of 
such  weights  and  measures  shall  conform  to  those  established 
by  law. 

Section  80.*  To  regulate  and  provide  for  the  inspection  and 
measuring  of  lumber,  shingles,  timber,  posts  and  all  kinds  of 
building  materials,  and  for  measuring  all  kinds  of  mechanical 


*Act  of  1903. 


43— 


work ;  to  provide  for  the  measuring  of  wood  and  weighing  of  hay 
and  the  manner  and  place  of  selling  the  same. 

Section  81.*  To  prevent  and  suppress  any  riot,  affray,  noise, 
disturbance,  disorderly  conduct  or  assembly  in  any  public  or 
private  place  in  the  City,  and  prohibit  the  carrying  or  deadly 
weapons  within  the  City  limits. 

Section  82.*  To  prevent  and  prohibit  any  immoderate  driving 
or  running  of  horses  or  other  animals,  or  motor  vehicles  in  the 
streets  or  public  places  of  the  City ;  to  compel  persons  to  fasten 
their  horses  or  other  animals,  whether  attached  to  vehicles  or 
not,  while  standing  or  remaining  in  the  streets ;  to  prevent,  regu- 
’  late  and  control  the  driving  of  cattle,  horses  and  all  other  animals 
through  the  City,  and  to  prohibit  all  cruelty  to  animals. 

Section  83.*  To  establish  and  regulate  public  pounds  and  to 
regulate  and  prohibit  the  running  at  large  of  horses,  mules,  cattle, 
sheep  or  other  animals ;  to  authorize  the  restraining,  impounding 
and  sale  of  the  same  for  the  cost  of  proceedings  and  the  penalty 
incurred ;  to  tax,  regulate,  restrain  and  prohibit  the  running  at 
large  of  dogs ;  to  require  licenses  for  all  dogs  kept  in  the  City 
and  to  provide  for  the  impounding  of  all  dogs  running  at  large. 

Section  84.*  To  purchase,  establish  and  regulate  one  or  more 
cemeteries  within  or  without  the  City  limits ;  to  regulate  and  pro¬ 
vide  for  the  registration  of  birth  and  deaths ;  to  direct  keeping  of 
records  of  mortality  and  impose  penalities  upon  physicians,  sex¬ 
tons  or  others  for  any  default  in  the  premises,  and  regulate  the 
burial  of  the  dead. 

Section  85.*  To  prevent  and  prohibit  boxing  matches,  spar¬ 
ring  exhibitions,  cock  and  dog  fighting,  bull  fighting'  and  all 


*Act  of  1903. 


44 


brutal  exhibitions,  to  license,  tax,  regulate  and  suppress  public 
balls,  dances,  and  all  other  public  places  of  resort  and  amusement. 

Section  86.*  To  prevent  and  prohibit  all  disturbances,  breaches 
of  the  peace  and  good  order,  assaults,  assaults  and  battery,  fight¬ 
ing,  quarreling,  using  abusive  and  insulting  language,  misde¬ 
meanors  and  all  disorderly  conduct. 

Section  87.*  To  prevent  and  punish  the  keeping  of  houses  of 
prostitution  within  the  City  or  within  such  limits  therein  as  may 
be  defined  by  ordinance,  and  adopt  summary  measures  for  the 
removal  or  suppression  of  all  such  establishments. 

Section  88.*  To  provide  for  the  inspection  of  all  buildings  and 
establishments  for  educational  or  asylum  purposes ;  to  require 
that  the  inmates  be  properly  treated,  and  to  require  all  institu¬ 
tions  of  whatever  nature  used  as  a'sylums,  colleges,  hospitals,  or 
boarding  schools  to  make  reports  of  the  number  of  inmates  and 
the  sanitary  condition  of  the  same. 

Section  89.*  To  establish,  regulate  and  maintain  a  fire  de¬ 
partment  and  to  fix  fire  limits  within  which  only  buildings 
constructed  of  approved  material  will  be  allowed  to  be  built,  and, 
generally,  to  make  and  enforce  all  such  regulations  for  the  pre¬ 
vention,  spread  and  extinguishing  of  fires  as  may  be  deemed 
expedient. 

Section  90.**  To  have  the  exclusive  control  and  power  over 
the  streets,  alleys,  sidewalks  and  public  grounds  and  highways 
of  the  City,  and  to  abate  and  remove  encroachments  or  obstruc¬ 
tions  thereon;  to  open,  alter,  widen,  straighten,  extend,  establish, 
regulate,  abolish,  close  the  same  or  any  part  thereof,  grade. 


*Act  of  1903. 

'^*Amendment  of  1914. 


45— 


re-grade,  clean,  pave,  macadamize,  or  otherwise  improve  any 
of  the  streets  or  public  places  in  said  City ;  to  put  drains  and 
sewers  therein  and  prevent  the  incumbering  thereof  in  any 
manner  and  to  protect  the  same  from  any  encroachments  and 
injury.  Provided  that  the  Commissioners  shall  not  receive, 
approve  or  allow  to  be  filed  a  plat  of  any  subdivision  of  pro¬ 
perty  in  the  City,  unless  and  until  the  owners  of  said  property 
shall  have  first  laid  out,  monumented,  curbed  and  macadamized 
all  the  streets  in  said  subdivision,  and  the  City  Engineer  shall 
not  give  lines  for  any  subdivision  hereafter  laid  out  unless  the 
provisions  of  this  section  shall  have  been  complied  with ;  pro¬ 
vided,  that  nothing  in  any  of  these  amendments  contained 
shall  in  any  manner  affect  the  powers  conferred  upon  said  City 
of  San  Antonio  by  the  adoption  at  an  election  heretofore  held 
of  Chapter  11,  Title  22,  of  the  Revised  Statutes  of  Texas  of 
1911. 

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Section  91.*  To  compel  by  appropriate  penal  ordinances  the 
laying  of  sidewalks  by  property  owners  in  front  of  or  abutting 
on  their  land,  and  may  prescribe  the  character  of  sidewalks  to 
be  laid,  and  provide  by  ordinances  that  the  City  shall  not  pave 
with  brick,  block,  asphalt,  stone  or  gravel  any  stfeet  until  the 
owners  of  the  property  abutting  thereon  shall  have  previously 
laid  a  curb  and  sidewalk  abutting  upon  the  said  street,  and  the 
Council  shall  have  the  right  to  prescribe  the  kind  of  sidewalk 
and  curb  to  be  laid ;  to  compel  the  construction  and  repair  of 
sidewalks  and  curbing,  and  require  the  cost  thereof  to  be  de¬ 
frayed  by  the  owner  of  the  property  fronting  on  such  sidewalk, 
which  cost  shall  be  a  personal  liability  against  such  owner  as 
well  as  first  and  prior  lien  and  charge  against  such  abutting 
property,  enforcible  in  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction ; 
provided  that  no  lien  by  reason  thereof  shall  be  created  against 
any  homestead. 


*Amendment  of  1911. 


Section  92.*  To  prevent  and  prohibit  the  incumbering  or 
blocking  of  the  streets,  alleys,  sidewalks  and  public  places  with 
any  vehicle  \\’‘hatever,  or  with  awnings,  posts,  signs,  or  any 
obstruction  of  any  kind ;  to  compel  all  persons  to  keep  weeds, 

filth  and  all  kinds  of  rubbish  from  the  sidewalks,  streets  and 

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gutters  in  front  of  premises  occupied  by  them ;  to  require  and 
compel  the  owners  to  fill  up,  grade,  pave  and  otherwise  im- 
'  prove  the  sidewalks  in  front  of  and  adjoining  their  property. 

Section  93.*  To  prohibit  and  restrain  the  rolling  of  hoops, 
flying  of  kites,  firing  of  firecrackers  or  firearms  or  fireworks 
or  pyrotechnics  of  any  kind,  the  use  of  velocipedes  or  any 
practice  tending  to  annoy  persons  passing  in  the  streets  or 
sidewalks,  or  to  frighten  horses  and  teams;  to  restrain,  pro¬ 
hibit  and  regulate  the  ringing  of  bells,  blowing  of  whistles, 
horns  and  bugles,  playing  of  street  organs  or  other  music, 
crying  of  goods,  and  all  other  noises,  practices  and  perform¬ 
ances  creating  annoyance  or  tending  to  the  collection  of  per¬ 
sons  on  the  streets  and  sidewalks  for  the  purpose  of  business, 
amusement  or  other  purposes. 

Section  94.**  To  direct  and  control  the  laying  and  con¬ 
struction  of  railroad  and  street  railway  tracks,  turnouts  and 
switches  and  prohibit  the  same  in  the  streets,  avenues  and  alleys, 
and  regulate  the  location  of  depot  grounds  within  the  City ;  to 
require  that  railroad  and  street  railway  tracks,  turnouts  and 
switches  shall  be  so  constructed  as  to  interfere  as  little  as 
possible  with  the  ordinary  travel  and  use  of  the  streets,  ave¬ 
nues  and  alleys,  and  that  sufficient  space  shall  be  left  on  either 
side  of  said  tracks  for  the  safe  and  convenient  passage  of  teams, 
carriages  and  other  vehicles  and  persons,  and  to  require  the 
building  by  railway  companies  of  subways  or  viaducts ;  to 
require  railroad  and  street  railway  companies  to  grade,  pave 


*Act  of  1903. 

**Amendment  of  1914. 


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and  keep  in  repair  the  public  streets,  highways,  squares,  plazas 
and  other  public  places  through  which  their  tracks  may  run, 
such  grading,  paving  and  repairs  to  embrace  the  space  between 
rails,  the  space  between  tracks  and  a  width  of  eighteen  inches 
outside  the  outermost  rails  on  either  side ;  to  require  railroad 
and  street  railway  companies  to  construct,  keep  in  repair  and 
light  crossings  at  the  intersection  of  their  tracks  with  streets, 
avenues,  alleys,  ditches,  sewers,  culverts,  and  to  regulate  the 
speed  of  locomotive  engines,  trains  and  street  cars  within  said 
City,  and  to  require  the  same  to  come  to  a  full  stop  at  such 
streets  and  places  as  may  be  deemed  necessary  by  the  Council 
to  prevent  accidents ;  provided,  that  the  several  powers  hereby 
conferred  shall  be  cumulative  to  those  conferred  upon  the  City 
by  Chapter  11,  Title  22,  of  the  Revised  Civil  Statutes  of  Texas 
for  1911. 

Section  95.*  To  exclusively  control  and  regulate  everything 
connected  with  street  railways  and  to  make  such  rules  and  reg¬ 
ulations  for  the  same  as  the  Commissioner  may  deem  necessary. 

Section  96.**  To  restrict  the  sale  of  tickets,  passes  or  other 
evidence  of  the  right  to  travel  on  any  railroad  or  street  railway 
to  duly  authorized  agents  of  the  railroad  or  street  railway 
company  issuing  or  authorizing  the  issuance  of  the  same,  and 
to  prohibit  the  sale  of  all  tickets,  passes  or  other  evidence  of 
the  right  to  travel  on  any  railroad  or  street  railway  by  any 
person  other  than  duly  authorized  agents  of  the  railroad  or 
street  railway  company  issuing  or  authorizing  the  issuance  of 
the  same,  and  to  provide  penalties  for  a  violation  of  any  ordi¬ 
nance  passed  under  this  power. 

Section  97.***  To  acquire  on  behalf  and  for  the  use  of  the 
City  by  purchase,  gift,  devise  or  condemnation  any  i)rivate 
property  or  any  interests  therein,  whether  such  property  be 


*Ameridment  of  1914. 

**Act  of  1903. 

^**Act  of  1907. 


situated  within  or  without  the  limits  of  said  City,  which  may 
be  necessary  or  proper  for  the  establishment  and  maintenance 
of  an  efficient  system  of  sewers  or  for  the  purpose  of  establish¬ 
ing  a  water  or  electric  light  plant,  and  for  other  proper  corpo¬ 
rate  purposes.  Said  City  is  hereby  given  the  right  to  lay,  con¬ 
struct  and  maintain  sewers,  water  main  and  outside  electrical 
constructions,  in,  under,  across  or  along  any  public  street,  high¬ 
way  or  public  grounds,  within  or  without  the  corporate  limits 
of  said  City,  and  to  regulate  the  manner  of  connecting  there¬ 
with. 

Section  98.*  To  appropriate  private  property  for  the  use 
of  the  City  for  streets,  alleys,  avenues,  boulevards,  parks,  public 
plazas  and  squares,  sewers,  gas  works,  electric  plant,  water 
works,  market  houses,  school  houses,  or  any  other  public  pur¬ 
poses  authorized  by  law,  and  in  such  event  the  Commissioners 
shall  declare,  by  ordinance,  the  necessity  for  such  appropriation, 
describing  the  property  sought  to  be  appropriated  and  stating 
the  name  and  residence  of  the  owner,  if  known,  and  if  unknown 
stating  that  fact,  and  shall  cause  to  be  filed  with  the  City  Clerk 
a  plat  of  the  property  proposed  to  be  condemned,  and  such 
private  property  shall  be  condemned  for  the  use  of  the  City 
for  the  purposes  expressed  in  the  ordinance  by  the  same  pro¬ 
ceedings  and  under  the  same  rules,  so  far  as  applicable,  as  are 
now  or  may  hereafter  be  provided  by  the  general  laws  of  this 
State  for  the  condemnation  of  private  property  for  the  use  of 
railroad  corporations,  save  and  except  that  the  City  of  San 
Antonio  shall  deposit  the  exact  amount  of  the  award  pending 
appeal,  if  it  should  desire  to  proceed  with  the  improvement, 
and  the  City  shall  have  the  right  to  assess  benefits  to  the  own¬ 
ers  of  the  abutting  property,  upon  such  improvements  for  the 
opening  of  streets,  plazas  and  parks,  or  in  any  other  manner 
or  by  and  other  proceedings  authorized  by  the  general  laws  of 
this  State  for  the  condemnation  of  private  property  for  public 
use. 


*Amendment  of  1914. 


49— 


Section  99.*  To  license,  regulate ’  and  inspect  all  trades,  pro¬ 
fessions,  occupations,  callings  and  business  carried  on  in  said 
City  whenever  and  wherever  the  Commissioners  shall  deem 
such  reg'ulation,  inspection  and  license  necessary  or  proper  for 
the  good  order,  public  health,  public  safety  or  general  police 
regulation  of  said  City,  and  charge  license  and  inspection  fees 
therefor,  and  such  fees  shall  not  be  construed  as  occupation 
taxes ;  and  for  any  purpose  relating  to  the  business  or  affairs 
of  the  City,  to  examine  or  cause  to  be  produced  and  examined 
all  books,  papers,  and  records  of  any  person  or  corporation 
doing  any  public  utility  service,  and  of  persons  and  corporations 
holding  franchises  from  the  City,  to  take  testimony  and  com¬ 
pel  the  attendance  and  examination,  under  oath,  of  witnesses, 
and  to  annul  and  forfeit  such  franchise  or  privilege  should  any 
officer,  agent  or  employee  of  any  such  corporation  or  franchise 
holder  refuse  to  produce  such  books,  papers  or  records,  or  give 
testimony. 


Section  100.*  The  Commissioners,  in  addition  to  the  powers 
herein  enumerated,  shall  have  the  power  to  pass,  publish,  amend 
or  repeal  all  ordinances,  rules  and  police  regulations  not  con¬ 
trary  to  the  Constitution  of  the  State  and  this  Charter,  and 
necessary  for  the  order  or  good  government  of  the  City,  or 
the  trade,  commerce  and  health  thereof,  or  that  may  be  neces¬ 
sary  and  proper  to  carry  into  effect  the  powers  here  vested  in 
the  corporation  or  any  part  of  its  officers ;  to  enforce  the 
observance  of  all  ordinances,  rules  and  police  reguations’,  and 
to  punish  violations  thereof  by  fines  and  imprisonment,  or 
either  or  both,  or  by  work  on  the  streets,  or  other  public  work, 
as  may  be  provided  by  ordinance,  and  required  by  the  judgment 
of  the  Corporation  Court ;  provided,  that  no  fine  shall  exceed 


*Amendment  of  1914. 


50— 


two  hundred  dollars,  and  no  period  of  imprisonment  shall  ex¬ 
ceed  one  hundred  days  in  the  City  jail.  Any  person  upon  whom 
any  fine  is  imposed  may  be  committed  until  payment  of  the 
same  and  in  defaut  thereof  may  be  imprisoned  in  the  City 
prison,  or  may  be  required  to  work  on  the  streets  or  other  public 
work  in  the  City,  for  such  time  and  in  such  manner  as  may  be 
provided  by  ordinance ;  provided,  such  imprisonment  shall  not 
exceed  one  hundred  days. 

Section  101.*  Franchises  for  the  use  of  the  streets  and  public 
places  of  the  City  may  be  granted  by  the  affirmative  vote  of 
four  Commissioners,  but  no  franchise  or  privilege  for  the  use 
of  any  of  the  public  streets  or  other  public  places  of  the  City 
shall  ever  be  granted  for  any  but  a  strictly  public  purpose,  and 
any  grant  of  a  franchise  or  privilege  hereafter  made  for  the 
use  of  any  of  the  public  streets  or  other  public  places  within 
said  City,  wdiere  from  the  nature  of  the  case  the  use  thereof 
would  be  private  or  only  colorably  public,  or  chiefly  for  pri¬ 
vate  purposes,  shall  be  absolutely  void.  Provided,  that  no 
ordinance  granting  a  franchise  shall  become  operative  unless 
ratified  by  a  majority  vote  of  the  qualified  voters  of  the  City, 
if  within  thirty  days  after  the  passage  of  such  ordinance  a 
petition,  signed  by  a  number  of  qualified  voters  of  not  less  than 
ten  per  cent  of  the  voters  voting  at  the  previous  general  City 
election  shall  be  presented  to  the  Board  of  Commissioners 
asking  that  said  ordinance  be  submitted  to  a  vote  of  the  people. 
All  such  elections  shall  be  held  in  accordance  with  the  general 
laws  governing  such  elections  in  said  City. 

Section  102.*  No  franchise  or  privilege  or  extension  granted 
by  the  Board  of  Commissioners  of  said  City  shall  ever  be 
assigned  or  transferred  by  the  original  grantee  or  any  assignee 
thereof,  without  the  consent  of  the  Board  of  Commissioners, 


*Amendment  of  1914. 


—51 


to  be  given  by  ordinance,  and  such  consent  shall  not  be  given 
in  advance  in  the  ordinance  granting  the  franchise  or  extension , 
nor  shall  such  consent  be  given  without  specifying  by  name 
in  the  ordinance  giving  the  consent  to  the  proposed  assignee. 
Any  attempted  violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  section 
shall  operate  a  forfeiture  of  such  franchise,  nor  shall  any  title 
pass  by  voluntary  sale  of  such  franchise  without  the  consent 
of  the  Board  of  Commissioners  so  given. 

Section  103.*  No  franchise  or  privilege  or  extension  shall 
ever  be  granted  by  the  Board  of  Commissioners  of  said  City 
for  a  longer  term  than  twenty-five  years,  and  any  extension 
of  the  right  of  way  covered  by  any  such  franchise  shall  expire 
with  the  term  of  the  original  franchise  and  its  extensions,  and 
no  franchise  or  privilege  or  extension  hereafter  granted  by  the 
Commissioners  and  held  by  any  corporation  shall  extend  or  re¬ 
main  in  force  beyond  the  regular  expiration  of  the  Charter  of 
the  corporation  by  lapse  of  time. 

Section  104.**  The  grant  of  any  franchise  or  privilege  for 
the  use  of  public  streets,  or  any  extension  of  the  term  or  right 
of  way  covered  thereby,  shall  be  upon  and  subject  to  the  con¬ 
ditions,  whether  expressed  in  the  grant  or  not,  that  upon  ac¬ 
ceptance  thereof  by  the  grantee,  the  grantee  or  other  holder 
of  such  franchise  or  privilege  shall  be  bound  and  obligated  to 
exercise  such  privilege  or  franchise  throughout  its  entire  term 
and  extensions  thereof,  and  throughout  the  entire  right  of  way 
covered  thereby,  and  extensions  of  such  right  of  way,  under 
penalty  of  forfeiture  of  the  entire  franchise. 

Section  105.*  Before  any  grant  of  a  franchise  shall  be  made 
the  proposed  specific  grant,  embodied  in  the  form  of  an  ordi- 


*Amendment  of  1914. 

**Act  of  1903. 


—52— 


nance  with  all  the  terms  and  conditions,  including  the  provisions 
as  to  rates,  fares,  prices  and  charges,  shall  be  published  at  least 
three  times  in  some  newspaper  published  in  said  City,  to  be 
designated  by  the  Mayor.  Such  publication  shall  be  made  at 
least  twenty  days  before  the  final  vote  on  such  ordinance,  and 
the  ordinance  granting  the  franchise  shall  be  read  in  full  at 
three  regular  meetings  of  the  Board  of  Commissioners. 


ARTICLE  III. 

TAXATION  AND  FINANCE. 

Section  106.**  The  Board  of  Commissioners  shall  have  power 
by  ordinance  to  annually  levy  and  collect  ad  valorem  taxes  as 
follows :  First :  For  general  purposes,  not  exceeding  one 

dollar  and  twenty-five  cents  upon  every  one  hundred  dollars 
valuation.  Second :  For  special  purposes  not  exceeding  one 
dollar  and  twenty-five  cents  upon  every  one  hundred  dollars 
valuation ;  provided,  that  the  total  tax  rate  of  the  City  shall 
never  exceed  two  dollars  and  twenty-five  cents  annually,  on 
the  one  hundred  dollars  valuation  of  all  property  assessed, 
according  to  the  last  approved  assessment  roll  of  the  City,  - 
except  that  the  tax  levied  by  any  improvement  district  therein, 
as  provided  in  Section  54,  may  be  not  exceeding  twenty-five 
cents  annually,  in  addition  to  the  two  dollars  and  twenty-five 
cents  mentioned  above.  The  ad  valorem  taxes  shall  be  levied 
and  collected  annually  on  the  assessed  value  of  all  real  and 
personal  estate  and  property  in  said  City,  including  all  choses 
in  action,  franchises  and  privileges  having  a  situs  in  said  City, 
though  the  owners  thereof  be  non-residents.  Bonds  of  the 
United  States,  and  State  of  Texas,  and  of  the  City  of  San 


**Amendment  of  1923. 


— 53 — 


Antonio,  and  of  all  improvement  districts  therof,  shall  not  be 
taxed. 

Section  106a.*  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  City  of  San  An¬ 
tonio  to  assess  and  collect,  free  of  charge  or  deduction,  all 
taxes  accruing  to  the  Independent  School  District  of  the  City 
of  San  Antonio,  and  to  pay  over  and  cause  to  be  paid  over,  at 
least  monthly,  to  the  proper  officer  designated  by  said  Board 
of  Trustees,  all  moneys  belonging  to  such  district  and  collected 
by  City  officials. 

Section  107.**  The  Board  of  Commissioners  shall  have 
power  to  annually  levy  and  collect  occupation  taxes,  not  ex¬ 
ceeding  one-half  the  amount  of  occupation  taxes  imposed  by 
the  State,  upon  all  occupations,  callings  and  professions  sub¬ 
ject  to  such  taxes  by  the  laws  of  the  State. 

Section  108.**  The  Board  of  Commissioners  shall  have  power 
to  create  special  funds  for  special  purposes,  but  shall  not  have 
power  to  transfer  money  from  one  fund  to  another,  except  that 
when  there  is  an  excess  in  the  general  fund  over  current  ex¬ 
penses,  such  excess  or  part  thereof  may  be  transferred  to  any 
of  th  special  funds.  The  City  depository  shall  not  honor  any 
draft  upon  the  fund  designated  for  the  payment  of  the  interest 
upon  the  public  debt  and  for  the  creation  of  a  sinking  fund  for 
its  ultimate  payment,  except  those  drafts  for  such  purposes, 
but  said  sinking  fund  may  be  appropriated  at  any  time  to  reduce 
the  public  debt  by  the  purchase  and  cancellation  of  outstanding 
City  bonds,  or  for  the  investment  of  such  sinking  fund  in  bonds 


*Amendment  of  1911. 

**Amendment  of  1914. 


—54 


of  the  United  States,  or  State  of  Texas,  or  of  the  City  of  San 
Antonio,  or  of  any  improvement  district  thereof,  or  of  Bexar 
County,  Texas,  nor  shall  the  City  depository  honor  any  draft 
drawn  upon  the  fund  set  aside  for  permanent  building  improve¬ 
ments,  except  those  drawn  in  payment  for  such  improvements 
in  pursuance  of  an  ordinance  providing  for  the  erection  or  con¬ 
struction  of  such  permanent  public  improvements. 

Section  109.*  The  City,  or  any  creditor  of  the  City,  injured 
by  a  wrongful  diversion  or  payment  of  special  funds  by  the 
depository,  shall  be  entitled  to  maintain  in  any  court  of  com¬ 
petent  jurisdiction  an  action  against  the  depository  and  sureties 
upon  its  official  bond  for  the  recovery  of  damages  sustained. 

Section  110.*  The  Board  of  Commissioners  shall  have  the 
power  by  ordinance  to  direct  the  deposit  of  all  money  of  the 
City  in  any  bank,  banks,  or  trust  company,  in  the  City  of  San 
Antonio,  which  the  Board  of  Commissioners  may  designate,  and 
the  officer  or  employee  making  such  deposit  shall  not  be  re¬ 
sponsible  for  the  loss  of  any  money  of  the  City  while  so  de¬ 
posited  by  reason  of  the  failure  of  such  banks  or  trust  com¬ 
pany.  Such  banks,  bank,  or  trust  company,  shall  give  the  City 
security  for  the  full  amount  of  such  deposit,  and  pay  to  the 
City  not  less  than  three  per  cent  interest  on  such  deposits,  and 
the  Commissioners  may  provide  further  regulations  and  safe¬ 
guards  with  regard  to  such  depositories. 

Section  111.*  All  salaried  officers  and  employees  shall  be 
entitled  to  warrants  for  their  salaries  at  the  end  of  every  month, 
unless  the  term  of  their  employment  shall  be  for  an 


*Amendment  of  1914. 


uncertain  or  shorter  period,  and  the  Commissioners  shall  pre¬ 
scribe  the  manner  of  issuance  of  said  monthly  warrants.  All 
day  laborers  or  other  persons  performing  services  for  the  City 
tor  uncertain  periods  may  be  paid  weekly  in  such  manner  as 
the  Commissioners  may  prescribe  upon  pay  rolls  duly  certified ; 
provided,  that  the  regular  force  of  the  City  employees  in  the 
service  of  the  City  as  day  laborers  shall  not  be  added  to  or 
increased  at  any  time  within  thirty  days  prior  to  the  date  of 
any  State  and  County  or  City  election. 

Section  112.*  All  creditors  of  the  City  having  audited  or 
established  claims  against  the  City  shall  be  entitled  to  warrants 
therefor  drawn  upon  the  City  depository,  which  shall  be  num¬ 
bered,  designating  the  fund  out  of  which  the  same  are  payable, 
but  such  warrants  shall  not  bear  interest,  and  shall  be  paid  in 
the  order  of  their  issuance  by  months  and  by  numbers,  so  that 
no  preference  shall  be  shown  to  any  person ;  but  said  warrants 
shall  be  drawn  in  the  same  order  as  the  claims  may  be  audited, 
approved  or  established  by  the  action  of  the  Board  of  Com¬ 
missioners  or  under  its  direction  or  by  the  judgment  of  a  court 
of  competent  jurisdiction. 

Section  113.*  The  City  shall  not  recognize  transfers  or  as¬ 
signments  of  salaries  or  wages,  nor  shall  any  officer  of  the 
City  receive  or  honor  any  drafts  or  order  drawn  by  any  person 
against  his  salary  or  wages,  but  the  warrant  or  money  shall  in 
every  instance  be  delivered  or  paid  to  the  person  entitled  thereto 
according  to  the  City’s  accounts;  nor  shall  any  officer  of  the 
City  issue  any  certificates  of  indebtedness.  Nothing  herein  con¬ 
tained  shall  prevent  the  holder  of  a  warrant  from  transferring 
it.  Provided,  that  if  the  Commissioners  so  declare  by  ordinance, 
a  warrant  for  the  total  amount  of  any  pay  roll  may  be  drawn  in 
favor  of  the  person  paying  such  pay  roll,  and  such  warrant  shall 
have  the  same  legal  standing  and  effect  as  warrants  drawn 
under  Section  52  of  this  Charter. 


*  Amendment  of  1914. 


—56— 


Section  114,*  Before  the  delivery  of  any  warrant  by  the 
Auditor  to  the  payee  thereof,  the  Auditor  shall  carefully  ascer¬ 
tain  whether  or  not  such  person  is  in  any  manner  indebted  to 
the  City  for  matured  taxes  or  debts  of  any  kind,  and  if  he  shall 
find  that  such  payee  is  so  indebted  to  the  City,  he  shall  not 
deliver  such  warrant  unless  such  person  shall  then  and  there 
actually  pay  such  taxes  or  debts  to  the  proper  receiving  officer. 
If  such  payee  refuses  to  pay  such  taxes  or  debts,  the  Auditor 
shall  refuse  delivery  of  such  warrant,  and  shall  make  report 
thereof  at  the  next  meeting  of  the  Board,  of  Commissioners, 
together  with  a  statement  of  the  nature  of  the  claim  asserted 
by  the  City  against  the  payee,  and  in  such  case,  the  Auditor 
shall  await  the  action  of  the  Board  of  Commissioners  before 
delivering  such  warrant ;  provided,  however,  that  this  section 
shall  apply  only  to  persons  receiving  warrants  for  their  com¬ 
pensation  and  shall  not  apply  to  current  wages  of  those  persons 
who  are  to  be  paid  weekly. 

Section  115.**  City  warrants  shall  not  bear  interest  and  shall 
not  be  receivable  for  taxes  nor  any  other  debts  or  demands  due 
the  City,  but  all  taxes  and  dues  shall  be  payable  to  the  City  in 
lawful  legal  tender  money  of  the  United  States. 

Section  116.*  All  City  taxes  shall  be  levied,  assessed,  and 
collected  in  the  same  manner  as  may  be  provided  by  the  laws 
of  the  State  for  the  levy,  assessment  and  collection  of  State 
and  County  taxes,  unless  herein  otherwise  provided.  The  Com¬ 
missioners  shall  act  as  a  Board  of  Equalization  without  further 
compesation,  and  three  members  of  said  Commissioners  shall 


*Amendment  of  1914. 

**Act  of  1903. 


—57- 


constitute  a  quorum  for  this  purpose.  The  Board  of  Equaliza¬ 
tion  shall  revise  and  correct  all  assessments  made  in  said  City 
in  the  same  manner  as  the  same  are  revised  and  corrected  by  the 
Commissioners’  Court  in  cases  of  State  and  County  taxation, 
and  said  Board  shall  fix  its  time  of  meeting  and  give  notice 
thereof.  Said  Board  shall  assess  all  property  at  its  reasonable 
market  value  and  shall  equalize  all  assessments  as  near  as  may 
be.  Said  Commissioners,  as  a  Board  of  Equalization,  shall 
have  power  to  summon  any  of  the  property  owners  before  them, 
shall  have  power  to  administer  oaths  and  to  punish  for  con¬ 
tempt,  not  exceeding  a  one  hundred  dollar  ($100)  fine.  Any 
person  failing  to  appear  before  said  Board,  or  failing  to  give 
evidence  or  answer  any  question  as  to  his  property  or  any  part 
thereof,  or  its  location  or  value,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  con¬ 
tempt  within  the  meaning  of  this  section.  The  Board  shall  have 
the  right  to  adopt  any  manner  of  assessment  so  as  to  equalize 
taxes  as  near  as  possible,  and  at  the  conclusion  of  its  work 
each  year  the  Commissioners  shall  sign  a  written  oath  that 
they  have  inquired-  into  the  value  of  all  property  subject  to  tax¬ 
ation  and  have  assessed  said  property  at  its  reasonable  and 
fair  market  value.  The  Commissioners  may,  by  ordinance,  reg¬ 
ulate  the  mode  and  manner  of  assessing  and  collecting.  City 
taxes,  as  the  Commissioners  may  deem  proper  although  not  in 
accordance  with  the  provisions  of  the  State  laws  governing  the 
assessment  and  collecting  of  County  taxes,  and  may  provide  for 

the  advertisement  and  sale  of  property  for  delinquent  taxes 
in  such  manner  as  they  may  deem  proper  and  provide  for  the  pay¬ 
ment  of  costs  of  such  advertisement  and  sale  and  execution  of 
deeds  to  be  made  against  the  owner  of  such  property.  A  pur¬ 
chaser  of  property  at  a  tax  sale  shall  be  subrogated  to  all  the 
rights  of  the  City  with  reference  to  the  collection  of  taxes  against 
.said  property. 


58— 


Section  117.*  If  the  Commissioners  should  fail,  refuse  or 
neglect  to  pass  an  ordinance  for  any  one  year,  levying  the  taxes 
for  that  year,  the  ordinance  last  passed  levying  taxes  will  be 
considered  in  force  and  a  failure  to  pass  such  an  ordinance  shall 
in  no  wise  invalidate  the  collection  of  any  taxes. 

Section  118.**  The  fiscal  year  of  the  City  shall  begin  on  the 
first  day  of  June  and  end  on  the  thirty-first  day  of  May  of 
each  year,  and  all  persons  and  property  not  exempt  by  the 
C'onstitution  and  laws  of  the  State  shall  be  subject  to  City 
assessment  and  taxation  as  of  the  first  day  of  June  of  each 
year  in  like  manner  as  property  is  subject  to  assessment  and 
taxation  by  the  State  and  County  as  of  the  first  day  of  January 
of  each  year. 

Section  119.*  All  ad  valorem  taxes  for  each  fiscal  year 
shall  become  due  on  the  first  day  of  April  of  each  fiscal  year, 
and  shall  be  paid  before  the  first  day  of  June  next  following 
and  from  such  first  day  of  June  shall  bear  interest  at  the  rate 
of  six  per  cent  per  annum,  and  the  Commissioners  shall  not 
h.ave  power  to  extend  the  time  for  the  payment  of  taxes. 

Section  120.*  All  persons  and  property  owners  failing  to 
pay  their  annual  taxes  for  any  fiscal  year  before  the  first  day 
of  June  next  following  the  levy  of  same,  shall  in  addition  to 
interest,  be  charged  a  penalty  of  two  per  cent  upon  the  princi¬ 
pal  amount  due  for  the  first  month  or  part  of  a  month  of  such 
delinquency,  and  thereafter  in  addition  to  interest,  a  penalty  of 
two  per  cent  upon  the  principal  amount  due  for  each  additional 
month  or  fraction  thereof  of  such  delinquency ;  and  neither  the 
Commissioners  nor  the  Commissioner  of  Taxation  shall  have 
power  to  remit  such  penalties,  interest  or  any  costs  due  the 


*Amendment  of  1914. 

**Act  of  1903. 


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City ;  provided,  that  the  aggregate  penalties  to  be  charged 
shall  never  exceed  ten  per  cent,  and  shall  be  charged  on  the 
original  principal  amount  only,  and  such  penalties  shall  not 
bear  interest. 

Section  121.*  The  annual  assessment  made  upon  property 
within  said  City  for  taxes  due  said  City,  shall  be  a  special  lien 
upon  said  property,  and  all  property,  both  real  and  personal, 
belonging  to  any  delinquent  taxpayer,  shall  be  liable  to  seizure 
and  sale  for  the  payment  of  all  taxes,  interest,  penalties  and 
costs  due  said  City  by  such  delinquency,  and  such  property  may 
be  sold  for  the  payment  of  taxes,  interest,  penalties  and  costs 
due  the  City  by  such  delinquent,  under  such  regulations  as  the 
Legislature  may  have  provided,  or  may  hereafter  provide  for 
the  collection  of  State  and  County  taxes,  or  as  may  be  provided 
by  the  Commissioners  or  under  decree  of  court. 

Section  122.**  The  City  may  bring  suit  in  any  court  of  com¬ 
petent  jurisdiction  in  any  action  at  common  law  for  the  re¬ 
covery  of  any  taxes  due  said  City,  with  interest,  penalties  and 
costs  due  thereon,  and  for  the  foreclosure  of  the  tax  lien  upon 
such  property,  but  this  remedy  shall  be  cumulative  of  all  other 
remedies. 

Section  123.**  All  taxes  delinquent  for  ten  years  before  any 
suit  is  filed  to  collect  the  same  shall  be  barred  by  limitation ; 
provided,  that  this  section  shall  not  affect  judgments  already 
rendered,  nor  suits  pending  when  this  act  takes  effect,  nor  the 
validity  of  tax  titles  hereinbefore  made,  and  provided,  further, 
that  this  section  shall  not  take  effect  until  one  year  after  the 
passage  of  this  Act. 


*Amendment  of  1914. 

**Act  of  1903. 


Section  124.*  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Auditor  immedi¬ 
ately  after  the  passage  of  this  Act,  to  cause  a  notice  to  be 
published  for  thirty  days  in  one  or  more  papers  in  the  City  of 
San  Antonio,  requesting  all  parties  holding  claims,  excepting 
b.onds,  against  the  City  of  San  Antonio,  to  immediately  file 
same  with  the  Auditor.  At  the  expiration  of  said  thirty  days 
the  City  Council  shall  pass  upon  such  claims  as  may  be  filed, 
together  with  all  other  claims  that  may  have  been  previously 
filed  and  not  acted  on  by  the  Council,  and  by  ordinance  allow 
or  reject  such  claim.  Within  thirty  days  thereafter  the  Auditor 
shall  prepare  a  statement,  verified  by  oath,  of  the  entire  un¬ 
bonded  indebtedness  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio,  so  allowed  by 
the  Council,  or  adjudged  to  be  due  by  final  decree  of  any  court 
of  competent  jurisdiction,  and  cause  the  same  to  be  published 
for  one  week  in  a  paper  in  San  Antonio.  Thereafter,  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  Auditor  within  ten  days  after  the  first  day  of 
each  quarter  of  the  fiscal  year  to  prepare  a  statement,  verified 
by  oath  as  follows : 

“Balance  of  unbonded  indebtedness  of  the  City  of  San  An¬ 
tonio  reported  on . day  of . ,  19 . , 

$ .  amount  of  indebtedness  incurred  during  the 

quarter  ending . day  of . ,  19 . 

$ . ;  total  payments  made  on  account  of 

foregoing  indebtedness,  during  quarter  ending . day  of 

. + . ,  19 . ,  $ . ;  balance 

of  unbonded  indebtedness,  $ . ,” 

The  Auditor  shall  immediately  thereafter  cause  such  state¬ 
ment  to  be  published  in  a  paper  published  in  the  City  of  San 
Antonio.  A  willful  failure  to  prepare  the  statement  required 
by  this  section  shall  subject  the  Auditor  to  fine  of  not  less  than 
$10.00  nor  more  than  $100.00  for  each  day  that  the  publication  of 
said  statement  is  omitted. 


*  Amendment  of  1907. 


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Section  125.*  This  Act  shall  be  deemed  a  public  Act,  and 
may  be  read  in  evidence  without  pleading  or  proof,  and  ju¬ 
dicial  notice  shall  be  taken  thereof  in  all  courts  and  places.  But 
no  general  law  hereafter  passed  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State 
of  Texas,  nor  any  general  law  of  said  State  now  in  force,  shall 
be  held  to  repeal  or  affect  any  power  herein  granted,  or  which 
is  hereby  vested  in  said  City  or  its  City  Council,  unless  by  the 
express  terms  of  such  law  the  same  be  declared  applicable  to 
cities  incorporated  by  special  charter. 

Section  126.*  That  an  Act  of  the  Legislature  of  the  State 
of  Texas,  approved  August  13,  1870,  entitled  “An  Act  to  incor¬ 
porate  the  City  of  San  Antonio,  and  grant  a  new  charter  to  said 
City,”  and  to  repeal  an  Act  entitled  “An  Act  to  incorporate 
the  City  of  San  Antonio,”  approved  July  17,  1856,  and  an  Act 
entitled  “An  Act  to  amend  the  Act  to  incorporate  the  City  of 
San  Antonio,”  approved  February  11,  1860,  and  all  acts  amend¬ 
atory  of  said  Act,  approved  August  13,  1870,  be  and  the  same 
are  hereby  repealed. 

Section  127.**  The  City  Purchasing  Agent  shall  be  a  quali¬ 
fied  voter  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio,  at  least  thirty  (30)  years 
of  age,  and  shall  have  resided  in  said  City  for  at  least  one  (1) 
year  next  preceding  his  appointment.  His  salary  shall  be  two 
hundred  dollars  per  month.  It  shall  be  his  duty  to  purchase, 
subject  to  the  supervision  of  the  City  Council  or  Commissioners, 
all  materials  and  supplies  of  any  character  whatsoever  to  be 
used  by  the  City  of  San  Antonio.  All  purchases  shall  be  made 
on  competitive,  sealed  bids,  the  contracts  to  be  awarded  to  the 
lowest  bidder,  and  in  all  cases  where  such  supplies  are  not  pur¬ 
chased  from  the  lowest  bidder,  the  contract  for  the  purchase 
thereof  shall  not  be  let  until  the  City  Council  or  Commissioners 
aprove  such  purchase  from  such  other  bidder.  All  competitive 
bids  shall  be  opened  in  the  presence  of  the  City  Council  or 


*Act  of  1903. 

**Amendment  of  1914. 


4 


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Commissioners  and  therafter  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the 
Auditor  subject  to  the  inspection  of  anyone  desiring  to  see 
them.  In  all  cases  where  bids  are  not  satisfactory  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  Purchasing  Agent  to  reject  said  bids  and  re-adver- 
tise  for  new  bids ;  provided,  however,  in  case  of  emergency,  pur¬ 
chases,  not  in  excess  of  one  hundred  ($100.00)  dollars  may  be 
made  without  advertising  for  bids,  but  in  each  case  the  written 
consent  of  the  Mayor  must  be  obtained.  The  Purchasing  Agent 
shall  advertise  for  bids  in  some  newspaper  published  daily  in 
the  City  of  San  Antonio  for  such  a  period  as  may  be  fixed  by 
the  City  Council  or  Commissioners,  but  which  shall  not  be  less 
than  five  (5)  days.  The  City  of  San  Antonio  shall  not  be 
obligated  to  pay  for  any  materials  or  supplies  not  purchased 
ir-  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  Section.  The  Pur¬ 
chasing  Agent  shall  be  required  to  furnish  bond  payable  to 
the  City  of  San  Antonio  in  the  sum  of  not  less  than  Twenty-five 
Thousand  ($15,000.00)  Dollars  with  two  (2)  or  more  good  and 
sufficient  sureties,  conditioned  on  the  faithful  performance  of 

his  duties  as  Purchasing  Agent,  which  bond  shall  be  approved 
by  the  City  Council  or  Commissioners.  The  Purchasing  Agent 
shall  prescribe  requisition  blanks  for  the  different  departments 
and  requisitions  shall  be  made  out  and  signed  in  quadruplicate 
one  (1)  copy  of  which  shall  remain  with  the  office  making 
such  requisition,,  one  to  be  filed  with  the  City  Clerk,  for  the 
use  of  the  City  Council  or  Commissioners,  and  one  to  be  given 
to  the  merchant  furnishing  the  supplies,  and  another  to  be  de¬ 
livered  to  the  Auditor.  The  Purchasing  Agent  shall  also  pre¬ 
scribe  forms  showing  that  the  officer  or  employee  making  the 
requisition  has  received  all  supplies  so  requisitioned,  or  if  he 
has  not  received  them,  the  reason  therefor,  and  said  report 
shall  be  made  in  quadruplicate  and  distributed  as  above  pro¬ 
vided  for  requisitions.  He  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as 
the  City  Council  or  Commissioners  may  prescribe. 


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-  Section  128.* — Paragraph  1  :  The  holder  of  any  elective 
office  may  be  removed  at  any  time  by  the  qualified  voters  ot 
ilie  City  of  San  Antonio.  The  procedure  to  effect  the  removal 
of  any  such  officer  shall  be  as  follows :  A  petition  signed  by 
ten  (10)  per  cent  of  the  qualified  voters  of  the  City  of  San 
.Vntonio,  demanding  the  removal  of  such  officer  shall  be  filed 
with  the  City  Secretary,  which  petition  shall  contain  a  general 
statement  of  the  ground  or  grounds  for  which  the  removal  is 
sought.  The  signatures  to  the  petition  need  not  be  all  appended 
to  one  paper,  but  each  signer  shall  add  to  his  signature  his 
place  of  residence,  giving  the  street  number,  and  one  of  the 
signers  of  each  of  such  papers  shall  make  oath  before  an  officer 
authorized  to  administer  oaths,  that  each  signature  to  the  paper 
appended  is  a  genuine  signature  of  the  person  whose  name  it 
purports  to  be.  Within  ten  days  from  the  date  of  filing  such 
petition,  the  City  Clerk  shall  examine  said  petition,  and  from 
the  list  of  qualified  voters  of  the  City  hereafter  mentioned, 
ascertain  whether  or  not  said  petition  is  signed  by  the  requisite 
number  of  qualified  voters,  and  he  shall  attach  to  said  petition 
his  certificate  showing  the  result  of  said  examination,  stating 
the  number  of  qualified  voters  found  upon  said  petition  and  the 
number  of  persons  not  qualified  to  vote,  and  in  checking  said 
petition,  the  City  Clerk  shall  designate  the  names  of  persons 
found  thereon  not  qualified  to  vote  with  the  letters :  “D.  V.”  in 
red  ink  oposite  such  name  or  names.  If,  by  the  City  Clerk’s 
certificate,  the  petition  is  shown  to  be  insufficient,  it  may  be 
amended  in  ten  days  from  the  date  of  said  certificate.  The  City 
Clerk  shall,  within  ten  days  after  said  amendment  is  filed  with 
him,  make  a  like  examination  and  check  off  the  names  thereon, 
and  if  his  certificate  shall  show  the  same  to  be  insufficient, 
it  shall  be  returned  to  the  person  filing  the  same,  without  preju¬ 
dice,  however,  to  the  filing  of  a  new  petition  to  the  same  effect. 
If  the  petition  is  shown  to  be  sufficient  by  the  certificate  of 
the  Clerk  he  shall  submit  the  same  to  the  City  Council  or 


*  Amendment  of  1914. 


—64 


Commissioners  without  delay,  and  the  City  Council  or  Com¬ 
missioners  shall  immediately  cause  to  be  opened  a  recall  register, 
which  shall  show  that  ihe  same  is  o])ened  for  the  purpose  ot 
permitting  voters  to  register  their  desire  upon  the  question  of 
the  recall  of  the  officer  named  in  the  petition  theretofore  filed. 
Said  register  shall  remain  in  the  City  Clerk’s  office  accessible  to 
the  citizens  at  all  times  between  the  hours  of  9  a.  m.  and  7 
p.  m.  daily,  except  Sundays;  and  any  voter  desiring  to  register 
shall  do  so  by  signing  said  register  in  person.  He  shall  be¬ 
fore  signing  said  register  exhibit  his  poll  tax  receipt  or  re¬ 
ceipts  showing  that  he  is  a  qualified  voter  in  said  City.  Said 
legister  shall  remain  open  for  twenty  days,  and  if  at  the  ex¬ 
piration  of  such  time,  qualified  voters  to  the  number  of  25 
per  cent  of  the  qualified  voters  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio  shall 
have  signed  said  recall  register  the  City  Council  or  Commis¬ 
sioners  shall  immediately  fix  the  date  for  holding  such  election 
to  determine  whether  or  not  the  officer  against  whom  the  peti¬ 
tion  is  filed  shall  be  removed.  Said  election  shall  be  held  not 
less  than  thirty  days  nor  more  than  forty  days  from  the  date 
of  the  Clerk’s  certificate  of  the  sufficiency  of  the  recall  register. 
The  City  Council  or  Commissioners  shall  make  or  cause  to  be 
made  publication  in  a  daily  paper  published  in  the  City  of  San 
Antonio  for  three  consecutive  days  at  least  twenty  days  preced¬ 
ing  such  election  and  shall  state  therein  when  said  election  will 
be  held  and  the  purpose  of  holding  the  same.  The  City  Council 
or  Commissioners  shall  cause  all  arrangements  for  holding  said 
election  to  be  made  and  the  same  shall  be  held  and  conducted, 
returned  and  the  results  thereof  declared  in  all  respects  as  are 
other  City  elections,  and  in  the  manner  hereinbefore  provided, 
except  the  City  Clerk  shall  cause  to  be  printed  and  used  the  fol¬ 
lowing  ballot : 


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OFFICIAL  REMOVAL  BALLOT. 

For  Removal  of  . 

From  the  Office  of  . . . , . 

For  Removal 
Against  Removal 

Attest 


City  Clerk  of  San  Antonio,  Texas. 

Paragraph  2 :  In  voting  said  ballot,  the  voter  shall  indi¬ 
cate  his  vote  in  favor  of  removal  by  scratching  or  running  a 
line  through  the  words :  “Against  Removal,”  and  shall  indi¬ 
cate  his  vote  against  removal  by  scratching  or  running  a  line 
through  the  words:  “For  Removal.” 

Paragraph  3:  If  the  majority  of  the  votes  cast  at  such 
election  shall  be  in  favor  of  removal,  the  City  Council  or  Com¬ 
missioners  shall  immediately  declare  the  results  of  such  elec¬ 
tion  and  declare  said  office  vacant,  and  shall  immediately  order 
an  election  to  fill  such  vacancy,  as  hereinbefore  provided.  An 
officer  thus  removed  shall  not  be  a  candidate  to  succeed  him¬ 
self.  If  the  majority  is  against  removal,  the  incumbent  shall 
continue  in  office.  This  method  of  removal  from  office  shall 
be  cumulative  and  additional  to  all  other  methods  of  removal. 

Section  129.*  The  citizens  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio  may 
propose  and  submit  to  the  City  Council  or  Commissioners  ordi¬ 
nances  in  the  following  manner :  By  petition  signed  by  at 
least  ten  (10)  per  cent  of  the  qualified  voters  of  the  City  of 
San  Antonio.  The  petition  shall  set  forth  the  proposed  ordi- 


*Amendment  of  1914. 


nance  and  contain  a  request  that  the  same  be  enacted  into  law  by 
the  City  Council  or  Commissoners.  The  signatures  to  such  peti¬ 
tion  need  not  all  be  appended  to  one  paper,  but  each  signer 
shall  add  to  his  signature  his  place  of  residence,  giving  street 
and  number.  One  of  the  signers  of  each  paper  shall  make 
oath  before  some  officer  authorized  to  administer  oaths,  that 
each  signature  to  the  paper  appended  is  the  genuine  signature 
of  the  person  whose  name  it  purports  to  be  thereunto  sub¬ 
scribed.  Within  tend  days  from  the  date  of  filing  of  such  peti¬ 
tion,  the  City  Clerk  shall  examine  the  same  and  from  the  list 
of  qualified  voters  of  the  City  hereafter  mentioned,  ascertain 
whether  or  not  said  petition  is  signed  by  the  requisite  number 
of  qualified  voters,  and  he  shall  attach  to  said  petition  his  cer¬ 
tificate  showing  the  result  of  such  examination,  stating  the  num¬ 
ber  of  qualified  voters  found  upon  said  petition,  and  the  num¬ 
ber  of  persons  not  qualified  to  vote.  In  checking  said  petition 
the  City  Clerk  shall  designate  the  names  of  persons  found 
thereon  not  qualified  to  vote,  with  the  letters :  “D.  V.”  in  red 
ink  opposite  such  name  or  names.  If  by  the  Clerk’s  certificate, 
the  petition  is  shown  to  be  insufficient,  it  may  be  amended 
within  ten  days  from  the  date  of  said  certificate.  The  Clerk 
shall  within  ten  days  after  such  amendment  is  filed  with  him, 
make  a  like  examination  and  check  off  the  names  thereon  and 
if  his  certificate  shall  show  the  same  to  be  insufficient,  it  shall 
be  returned  to  the  person  filing  the  same  without  prejudice, 
however,  to  the  filing  of  a  new  petition  to  the  same  effect.  If 
the  petition  is  shown  to  be  sufficient  by  the  certificate  of  the 
City  Clerk,  he  shall  submit  the  same  to  the  City  Council  or 
Commissioners  without  delay,  and  the  City  Council  or  Com¬ 
missioners  shall  immediately  cause  to  be  opened  a  register 
which  shall  show  that  the  same  is  opened  for  the  purpose  of 
permitting  voters  to  register  their  desire  for  the  passage  or 
rejection  of  the  ordinance  proposed  in  the  petition  theretofore 
filed.  Said  register  shall  remain  in  the  City  Clerk’s  office 


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accessible  to  the  citizens  at  all  times  between  the  hours  of  9 
a.  m.  and  7  p.  m.  daily,  except  Sundays,  and  any  voter  desiring 
to  register  shall  do  so  by  signing  said  register  in  person.  He 
shall  before  signing  said  register  exhibit  his  poll  tax  receipt 
or  receipt  showing  that  he  is  a  qualified  voter  in  said  City. 
vSaid  register  shall  remain  open  for  twenty  (20)  days  and  if  at 
the  expiration  of  such  time  qualified  voters  to  the  number  of 
twenty-five  (25)  per  cent  of  qualified  voters  of  the  City  of 
San  Antonio  shall  have  signed  said  register  for  the  passage  of 
said  ordinance,  the  City  Council  or  Commissioners  shall  either 
(a)  pass  the  ordinance  set  out  in  said  petition  without  altera¬ 
tion  within  ten  days  after  the  date  of  the  Clerk’c  certificate  of 
sufficiency  of  said  register  ;  or  (b)  submit  the  same  to  the  vote 

of  the  qualified  voters  of  the  City  at  a  special  election  to  be 
called  for  that  purpose  within  forty  (40)  days  from  the  date 
of  the  certificate  aforesaid  unless  a  general  municipal  election 
is  fixed  within  ninety  days  thereafter,  and  then  at  such  general 
municipal  election  such  ordinance  shall  be  submitted  without 
alteration  of  any  kind.  The  ballot  used  in  voting  upon  an 
ordinance  shall  contain  these  words :  “For  the  Ordinance,’' 
stating  the  nature  of  the  proposed  ordinance,  and  “Ag-ainst  the 
Ordinance,”  stating  the  nature  of  the  ordinance  proposed.  If 
a  majority  of  the  qualfied  votes  cast  is  in  favor  thereof,  such 
ordinance  shall  thereupon  become  a  valid  and  binding  ordinance 
of  the  City,  and  any  ordinance  so  enacted  shall  not  be  repealed 
or  amended,  except  by  vote  of  the  people.  Any  number  of 
ordinances  may  be  voted  upon  at  the  same  election  in  accordance 
with  the  provisions  of  this  article.  The  City  Council  or  Com¬ 
missioners  may  submit  a  proposition  for  the  repeal  of  any  such 
ordinance  or  amendments  thereto  to  be  voted  upon  at  any 
general  muncipial  election  and  should  such  proposition  so  sub¬ 
mitted  receive  a  majority  of  the  votes  cast  thereon  at  such  elec¬ 
tion,  such  ordinance  shall  thereby  be  repealed  or  amended  ac¬ 
cordingly. 


Section  130.*  Whenever  any  ordinance,  or  proposition,  is 
required  by  this  Charter  to  be  submitted  to  the  voters  of  the 
City  at  any  election,  the  City  Clerk  shall  cause  the  ordinance 
Of  proposition  to  be  published  at  least  three  times  in  a  daily 
newspaper  published  in  the  City  of  San  Antonio,  said  i)ublica- 
tion  to  be  not  more  than  twenty,  nor  less  than  ten  days  before 
the  submission  of  such  proposition  or  ordinance  to  the  vote  of 
the  people. 

Section  131.*  No  ordinance  passed  by  the  City  Council  or 
Commissioners  shall  go  into  effect  l)efore  the  expiration  of 
ten  days  from  the  time  of  its  final  passage,  except  when  other¬ 
wise  required  by  the  Federal  Laws  or  the  State  Laws,  or  by 
the  provision  of  this  Charter,  and  except  an  ordinance  for  the 
immediate  preservation  of  public  peace,  health  or  safety,  which 
contains  a  statement  of  its  urgency  and  is  passed  by  a  four- 
fifth  vote  of  the  Commissioners;  and  if  during  said  ten  days 
3  petition  signed  by  ten  per  cent  of  the  votes  cast  for  Mayor 
at  the  last  preceding  general  election  protesting  against  the 
passage  of  such  ordinance  shall  be  presented  to  the  Comrfiis- 
sioners,  the  same  shall  thereupon  be  suspended  from  going  into 
effect,  and  the  Commissioners  shall  immediately  cause  to  be 
opened  a  register  which  shall  show  that  the  same  is  opened  for 
the  purpose  of  permitting  voters  to  register  their  protest  against 
the  passage  of  said  ordinance  proposed  in  the  petition  thereto¬ 
fore  filed.  Said  register  shall  remain  in  the  City  Clerk’s  office 
accessible  to  the  citizens  at  all  time  between  the  hours  of  9 
a.  m.  and  7  p.  m.,  daily,  except  Sundays,  and  any  voter  desiring 
to  register  shall  do  so  by  signing  said  register  in  person.  He 
shall  before  signing  said  register  exhibit  his  poll  tax  receipt 
or  receipt  showing  that  he  is  a  qualified  voter  in  said  City. 
Said  register  shall  remain  open  for  twenty  (20)  days  and  if 
at  the  expiration  of  such  time  qualified  voters  to  the  number  of 
25  per  cent  of  the  votes  cast  for  Mayor  at  the  last  preceding 


*Amendment  of  1914. 


—69— 


general  election  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio  shall  have  signed 
said  register  protesting  against  the  passage  of  said  ordinance, 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  City  Council  or  Commissioners  to 
reconsider  such  ordinance,  and  if  the  same  is  not  entirely  re¬ 
pealed,  the  City  Council  or  Commissioners  shall  submit  the 
ordinance  to  a  vote  of  the  people,  as  provided  in  Section  120, 
either  at  the  next  general  election  or  at  a  special  election  to  be 
called  for  that  purpose,  and  such  ordinance  shall  not  then  go 
into  effect  or  become  operative,  unless  a  majority  of  the  quali¬ 
fied  voters,  as  above  recited,  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio,  shall 
vote  in  favor  of  the  same.  Said  petition  shall  be  in  all  respects 
in  accordance  with  the  provisons  of  Section  130,  except  that  it 
shall  not  be  subject  to  amendment,  and  shall  be  examined  and 
certified  by  the  City  Clerk  as  herein  provided.  Nothing  herein 
contained  shall  affect  or  repeal  the  provisions  of  Section  101, 
providing  for  a  referendum  vote  franchise. 

Section  132.*  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  every  member  of 
the  City  Council  or  City  Commissioners  of  San  Antonio  shall 
have  the  power  to  administer  oaths  and  affirmations,  and  said 
City  Council  or  City  Commissioners  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio 
shall  have  the  power  to  issue  subpoenas  to  compel  by  subpoena 
the  production  of  books  and  papers,  accounts  and  the  attend¬ 
ance  of  witnesses,  and  to  take  and  hear  testimony  concerning 
any  matter  or  thing  pending  before  such  City  Council  or  City 
Commissioners  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio. 

If  any  person  so  subpoenaed  neglects  or  refuses  to  appear  or 
to  produce  any  book,  paper  or  document  as  required  by  such 
subpoena,  or  shall  refuse  to  testify  before  said  City  Council 
or  City  Commissioners  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio,  to  answer 
any  competent  question,  he  shall  be  deemed  in  contempt,  and 
said  City  Council  or  City  Commissioners  of  the  City  of  San 


*  Amendment  of  1914. 


—70— 


Antonio  shall  have  power  to  take  proceedings  in  that  behalf 
as  provided  by  the  general  laws  of  the  State.  The  Chief  of 
Police  must,  on  request  of  the  said  City  Council  or  City  Com¬ 
missioners  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio,  detail  a  police  officer 
or  police  officers  to  serve  such  subpoena  or  subpoenas. 

Section  133.*  All  provisions  in  any  Charter,  ordinance  or 
resolution  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio,  relating  to  the  assess¬ 
ment,  levy  and  collection  of  poll  taxes  shall  be,  and  the  same 
hereby  are,  repealed,  and  that  the  assessment  and  collection  of 
City  poll  taxes  is  hereby  abolished. 

Section  134.*  All  rules,  regulations  and  ordinances  of  the 
City,  which  shall  be  in  force  when  these  amendments  take 
effect,  and  not  in  conflict  herewith,  shall  remain  in  full  force 
and  effect  until  otherwise  amended,  altered  or  repealed.  All 
officers  of  the  City  of  San  Antonio  at  the  time  these  amend¬ 
ments  take  effect  shall  remain  in  office  until  the  Mayor  and 
Commissioners  herein  provided  for  are  elected  and  have  quali¬ 
fied  under  these  amendments,  and,  until  such  time,  the  officers 
of  this  City  in  office  when  these  amendments  take  effect  shall 
exercise  the  rights  and  duties  of  such  office  in  the  manner  pre¬ 
scribed  by  the  present  Charter. 

Section  135.*  Should  any  of  these  amendments,  or  any  part 
of  any  one  or  more  of  these  amendments,  for  any  reason,  be 
held  to  be  invalid  or  inoperative,  no  other  part  or  parts  shall 
be  affected  thereby,  and  if  any  exception  to  or  limitation  upon 
any  general  provision  herein  contained  shall  be  held  to  be  un¬ 
constitutional  or  invalid  or  ineffective,  the  general  provision 
'shall,  nevertheless,  stand  effective  and  valid  as  if  it  had  been 
enacted  without  exception  or  limitation. 


*  Amendment  of  1914. 


1 


INDEX  TO  CITY  CHARTER 


References  are  to  Sections. 


A 

Section 

ABATEMENT  OF  NUISANCES . 59,  61,  62,  67,  90 

ABUSIVE  LANGUAGE  . 86 

ACTING  MAYOR: 

Manner  of  selection  and  salary .  22 

To  hold  Corporation  Court,  when .  34 

ACT,  PUBLIC  . 125 

ADDITIONS  TO  CITY  . 90 

AFFIRMATIONS  AND  OATHS: 

City  Clerk  may  administer .  56 

AFFRAYS  . 81 

ALLEYS,  STREETS  and  HIGHWyAYS  90,  92,  93,  94,  97,  98 

ALLEYS,  PIN  AND  BALL .  75 

AMUSEMENT,  PLACES  OF . . . 77,  85 

ANIMALS  . - . • .  69,  82,  83 

APPEAL : 

City  may,  without  bond .  45 


n 


Section 

APPROPRIATIONS : 

How  made,  Quorum . 19 

Necessary  to  withdraw  funds  from  Depository .  41 

Ordinance,  Required  . . 20,  40 

Veto  of,  by  Mayor . . . '  26 

Adopted  over,  etc .  26 

Private  purposes,  not  allowed . 41 

ASSAULT  AND  BATTERY . : .  86 

ASSEMBLY : 

Suppression  of  disorderly . 81 

Regulation  of  practices  tending  to  collection  of 

persons  on  streets,  etc .  93 

ASSESSMENT  OF  PROPERTY: 

By  whom  made .  30 

How  made  . 30,  116,  118 

Property  subject  to . ► .  118 

Shall  be  special  lien .  121 

ASSIGNATION  HOUSES : 

Suppression  and  regulation . 75 

ASSIGNMENT  OF  SALARY  OR  WAGES : 

Not  permitted  or  recognized .  113 

ASYLUMS : 

Establishment  and  regulation .  88 

ATTACHMENTS : 

Certain  private  places  of  burial  exempt .  49 

City  property  impliedly  exempt .  43 

ATTORNEY,  CITY: 

Appointment  and  confirmation . ^ .  16 

Duties  of . ?. . 29,  40,  47 

Removal,  Manner  of . 17 

Salary  of.  How  fixed  .  18 


Ill 


Section 

ATTORNEY,  CITY  (Continued)  : 

Shall  not  hold  other  office,  or  claim,  or  be 


surety,  etc . .  11' 

Term  of  office  .  17 


AUDITOR : 

Appointment  and  confirmation . ; . ,  16 

Assessment  Rolls  filed  with .  30 

Duties  of . - . - . 32,  33,  114,  124 

Qualification  of .  33 

Removal,  Manner  of  .  17 

Reports  made  to  . 31 

Salary  of.  How  fixed . 18 

Shall  not  hold  other  office,  or  claim,  or  be 

surety,  etc .  1 1 

Term  of  office . •. . . .  17 


AVENUES,  STREETS  AND  ALLEYS . 90,  92,  93,  94,  97,  98 


BAGGAGE  WAGONS: 

License  and  regulation  of . . .  76 

BALL  ALLEYS : 

License  and  regulation  of .  75 

BALLOT,  OFFICIAL:  ' 

General  Election,  form  of .  12 

Recall  Election,  form  of .  128 

BALLS,  PUBLIC: 

License  and  regulation  of . 75,  85 

BAWDY  HOUSES : 

To  license  and  regulate . . . 75,  78 

BEGGARS : 

To  prohibit  and  punish .  78 


iv 


Section 

BELLS  AND  BUGLES : 

To  restrain  and  regulate  ringing  of . . .  93 

BIDS: 

Competitive  on  all  purchases . . .  127 

BILLIAD  TABLES : 

To  license  and  regulate .  75 

BIRTHS: 

Registration  of  .  84 

BLACKSMITH  SHOP : 

Location  of . . . . .  61 

BOARD  OF  EQUALIZATION : 

Duties  of . , . . . . .  116 

BOARD  OF  HEALTH: 

Mayor  made  chairman  of . . .  7 

BOARDING  SCHOOLS : 

Inspection  of  buildings  used  for .  88 

Reports  required  of . 88 

BOND  OR  SECURITY: 

City  not  required  to  give  for  cost  in  suits .  45 

BONDS,  CITY : 

Maximum  amount  of  bonded  debt  .  55 

Not  taxable  .  106 

Special  fund  for  payment  of,  not  to  be  diverted .  108 

Sinking  fund  for  redemption  of . 53,  54 

BONDS  OF  OFFICERS : 

City  Depository . , . 109,  110 

Commissioner  of  Taxation  . 7 

General  provisions  regarding  . 13,  56 

BORROWING  MONEY : 

Commissioners  authorized  to . 53,  54.  55 


9 


V 


Section 

BOXING  MATCHES : 

To  prevent  and  prohibit .  85 

BOUNDARIES  AND  CITY  LIMITS .  2 

BOUNDARIES,  WARDS  AND  PRECINCTS .  3 

BRANDS  OF  ANIMALS: 

To  keep  record  of  on  animals  slaughtered .  69 

BREACHES  OF  THE  PEACE: 

To  prevent  and  prohibit .  86 

BREWERIES: 

To  direct  location  of .  61 

BRIDGES: 

Erection,  Construction  and  Repair .  68 

To  prohibit  blocking  of .  92 

Walling  up  or  covering  canals,  ditches,  etc .  67 

BRUTAL  EXHIBITIONS : 

To  prevent  and  prohibit .  85 

BUDGET : 

Annual,  to  be  submitted  by  Mayor .  27 

Estimate,  basis  of .  39 

BUILDINGS: 

Erection  of,  use  of  City  . , . . .  64 

Inspection  and  regulation : 

Used  for  private  purposes  . , .  72 

Used  for  educational  and  asylum  purposes .  88 

To  control  and  prevent  fires .  89 

Inspection  and  measurement  of  building  material .  80 

BULL  FIGHTING : 

Prohibition  of  .  85 

BURIAL: 

To  regulate  burial  of  dead  bodies . . .  84 


Section 


BUTCHERS: 

To  regulate  generally .  61 

Inspection  of  .  69 


C 

CALLINGS : 

Regulation  and  license .  99 

CANAI  <S : 

To  wall  up  or  cover .  67 

CARNEGIE  LIBRARY : 

Annual  levy  of  tax  for .  66 

CATTLE : 

Driving  through  streets  .  82 

Impounding  of  .  83 

Prevention  of  cruelty  to  .  82 

CEMETERIES : 

Attachment,  certain  private  lots  exempt .  49 

Establishment  and  regulation  of .  84 

Execution,  certain  private  lots  exempt .  49 

Property  for,  City  may  acquire . 1,  84 

Regulation,  care  and  maintenance . 7,  71 

Sewer  farm,  may  subdivide  into  lots  .  1 

Taxation,  certain  private  lots  exempt  .  49 

CENSUS: 

Of  inhabitants  of  City . 74 

CERTIFIED  COPIES  OF  RECORD : 

Admissible  as  evidence,  when . 36,  37 

CERTIFICATE  OF  INDEBTEDNESS: 

Officers  of  City  not  to  issue .  113 

CHARGES  OF  VEHICLES : 

Commissioners  may  prescribe .  76 


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Section 


CHARTER : 

Act  creating,  deemed  public  act .  125 

Chapter  11,  Title  22,  R.  S.  1911,  specifically 
retained . - . 90,  94 

Previous  acts  repealed . . .  126 


CHLORAL : 

May  regulate  sale  of . ’  70 


CITIZENS : 

As  Judges,  Jurors,  etc.,  not  disqualified .  42 

Right  to  inspect  records  .  38 

Ratification  of  ordinances  granting  franchises .  101 


CITY  ATTORNEY : 

Appointment  and  election  of . 

Duties  of . 

Removal,  Manner  of . 

Salary  of.  How  fixed . 

Shall  not  hold  other  office,  etc. 
Term  of  office . 

CITY  AUDITOR : 


Appointment  and  election  of .  16 

Assessment  Rolls  filed  with .  30 

Duties  of  . 32,  33,  114,  124 

Qualification  of  .  33 

Removal,  Manner  of .  17 

Reports,  Made  to . , .  31 

Salary  of,  How  fixed  .  18 

Shall  not  hold  other  office,  etc .  11 

Term  of  office .  17 


.  16 

29,  40,  47 

.  17 

.  18 

.  11 

.  17 


CITY  CLERK : 


Appointment  and  election  of . 

Attest  warrants  on  depository  .... 
Candidates  to  file  statement  with 
Duties  of  . 


.  16 

.  24 

.  12 

.24,  36,  47,  56,  128,  129 


Section 


CITY  CLERK  (Continued)  : 

Official  ballot  published  by . 12,  128,  129 

Recall  elections,  duties  regarding .  128 

Removal,  Manner  of  . .  17 

Salary  of.  How  fixed  .  18 

Shall  not  hold  other  office,  etc .  11 

•  Term  of  office . . .  17 

CITY  COUNCIL  (See  Commissioners)  : 

Board  of  Commissioners,  same  as .  7 

City  limits,  to  ascertain  and  establish...., .  2 

Election  officers,  shall  select .  6 

Election  precincts.  Divide  wards  into .  3 

Election  precincts.  May  not  change,  when  .  3 

Wards,  to  divide  City  into .  3 

CITY  ENGINEER: 

Subdivisions,  Not  to  give  line  for,  except .  90 


CITY  LIMITS: 

Defined  and  how  established 

CITY  PHYSICIAN: 


Appointment  and  election  of  .  16 

Duties  of  . 

Removal,  Manner  of  .  17 

Salary,  How  fixed .  18 

Shall  not  hold  other  office,  etc .  11 

Term  of  office .  17 

CITY  PURCHASING  AGENT : 

Appointment  and  election  of  .  16 

Bond  of.  Required  . 127 

Duties  of.  Generally  .  127 

Qualification  of .  127 

Purchases,  on  competitive  bids .  127 

Removal,  Manner  of . 17 

Salary  of.  Fixed  .  127 


IX 


Section 

CITY  PURCHASING  AGENT  (Continued)  : 


Shall  not  hold  other  office,  etc . . .  1 1 

Term  of  office .  17 


COCAINE : 

To  regulate  sale  of .  70 

COCK  FIGHTING : 

To  prevent  and  prohibit  .  85 


COLLEGES : 

Inspection  of  buildings  . . .  88 

COMMERCE : 

Ordinances  and  regulations  regarding  .  100 


COMMISSIONERS,  BOARD  OF: 

Appointive  officers.  Elected  by  . 

Borrowing  money,  authorized  to  . 

Budget,  to  be  submitted  to  annually  ... 

Composition  of,  who  constitute  . 

Contempt,  Power  to  punish  for,  when 

Depository,  may  designate  . 

Elections  ordered  by,  when  . 

Employes,  elected  by  . 

Finances,  Management  of  . 

Franchises,  Granting  of,  by . 

Mayor  Pro-tempore,  ,  selected  by  . : . 

Meetings  of : 

City  Attorney  to  attend  . 

Conducting,  manner  of  . 

Mayor  to  preside . 

Regular,  when  . . . 

Special,  when  . 

Vote  in,  method  . 

Officers  and  Employes : 

Shall  fix  salary  of  . 

May  remove,  how  . 


. 32,  54,  55 

. . .  27 

.  7 

. . .  132 

.  no 

12,  101,  128,  129 

.  16 

.  19 

. 101  to  105 

.  22 


29 

..  21 
7 

21 

21,  23 
..  21 

..  18 
17 


Section 


COMMISSIONERS,  BOARD  OF  (Continued)  : 

Officers  of  elections,  shall  select. . , .  12 

Offices,  may  create  and  abolish  .  16 

Ordinances : 

Adoption  of,  what  necessary  . . . 19,  26 

General  publication  of.  Pamphlet  form  .  36 

Must  act  by,  when  .  20 

Submission  to  voters  . : .  129 

Powers  and  discretion  of,  general  . 7,  51,  100,  132 

Powers,  regarding  specific  subjects  . 52  to  99 

Quorum,  what  constitutes  .  19 

Recall  Elections,  duties  regarding  .  128 

Resolutions,  adoption  of  . 19,  26 

Suits,  may  compromise,  when  .  47 

Taxes,  may  levy  and  collect  . 106,  116 

COMMISSIONER  OF  FIRE  AND  POLICE: 

Acts  of,  what  prohibited,  when  .  11 

Annual  reports  to  Mayor  required  .  39 

Board  of  Commissioners,  Member  of  .  7 

Bond  and  oath  of  office  .  13 

Buildings  and  grounds,  to  have  charge  of  .  7 

Compensation  of,  salary  .  18 

Compensation,  none  other  than  salary  .  22 

Department  employes,  nominated  by  .  16 

Department  of  Fire  and  Police,  Control  of  .  7 

Election  and  Qualification  of  . . . 7,  9 

Election  to  office,  time  of  .  12 

General  Powers  and  Duties  . 7,  132 

Oaths  and  affirmations,  may  administer  .  132 

Office  of.  Who  eligible  to  .  8 

Pre-election  promises,  forbidden  .  18-a 

Qualify,  when  to  . 9,  14 

Removal,  Grounds  for,  and  how  . . . 10,  11,  128 

Salary  and  compensation  of  . . 18,  22 

Subpoenas,  may  issue  when  .  132 


XI 


Section 

COMMISSIONER  OF  FIRE  AND  POLICE  (Contd.)  : 

Term  of  office  . ^ . + . . . - .  7,  9 

Vacancy  in  office,  how  filled  . . .  15 

A'ote  in  meetings,  when  shall  not  .  11 

COMMISSIONER  OF  SANITATION,  PARKS  AND 
PUBLIC  PROPERTY : 

Acts,  of,  what  prohibited,  when  .  11 

Annual  reports  to  iMayor,  required  .  39 

Board  of  Commissioners,  Member  of  .  7 

Bond  and  oath  of  office  .  13 

Compensation  of,  salary  .  18 

Compensation,  none  other  than  salary  .  22 

Department  employees,  nominated  by  .  16 

Department  of  Sanitation,  etc.,  supervision  of .  7 

Election  and  Qualification  of .  7,  9 

Election  to  office,  time  of  . . .  12 

General  powers  and  duties  . ^ . 7,  132 

Oaths  and  affirmations,  may  administer  .  132 

Office  of,  who  eligible  to  .  8 

Pre-election  promises,  forbidden  .  18-a 

Qualify,  when  to  . - . . . 9,  14 

Removal,  Grounds  for  and  How  . 10,  11,  128 

Salary  and  compensation  . 18,  22 

Subpoena.  May  issue,  when .  132 

Term  of  office  . . .  7,  9 

\  acancy  in  office.  How  filled  .  15 

Vote  in  meetings,  when  shall  not  .  11 

COMMISSIONER  OF  STREETS  AND  PUBLIC 
IMPROVEMENTS : 

Acts  of,  what  prohibited,  when  . . .  11 

Annual  reports  to  Mayor,  required  .  39 

Board  of  Commissioners,  Member  of  .  7 

Bond  and  oath  of  office  .  13 

Compensation  of  salary  .  18 

Compensation,  none  other  than  salary  . •. .  22 


Xll 


Section 

COMMISSIONER  OF  STREETS  AND  PUBLIC 
IMPROVEMENTS  (Contd.) : 

Department  employees,  nominated  by  .  16 

Department  of  Street,  etc.,  supervision  of  .  7 

Election  and  qualification  of  .  7,  9 

Election  to  office,  time  of  . , . .  12 

General  powers  and  duties  . 7,  132 

Oaths  and  affirmations,  may  administer  .  132 

Office  of,  who  eligible  to  .  8 

Pre-election  promises,  forbidden  .  18-a 

Qualify,  when  to  .  9,  14 

Removal,  Grounds  for  and  how . 10,  11,  128 

Salary  and  compensation  . 18,  22 

Subjoena,  may  issue,  when  . . .  132 

Term  of  office  .  7, 9 

Vacancy  in  office,  how  filled  .  15 

Vote  in  meetings,  when  shall  not  .  11 

COMMISSIONER  OF  TAXATION: 

Acts  of,  what  prohibited  . , .  11 

Annual  report  to  Mayor,  required  .  39 

Assessment  of  property  for  taxes  . . .  30 

Board  of  Commissioners,  Member  of .  7 

Bond  and  oath  of  office  .  7,  13 

Compensation  of,  salary  . . . .  18 

Compensation,  none  other  than  salary  .  22 

Department  employees,  nominated  by .  16 

Department  of  Taxation,  supervision  of .  7 

Election  and  qualification  of  .  7, 9 

Election  to  office,  time  of . - .  12 

General  powers  and  duties . . . 7,  120,  132 

Oaths  and  affirmations,  may  administer .  132 

Office  of,  who  eligible  to  .  8 

Penalties  on  Taxes,  cannot  remit  .  120 

Pre-election  promises,  forbidden  .  18-a 

Property,  assessment  for  taxes  .  30 


Xlll 


Section 

COMMISSIONER  OF  TAXATION  (Contd.) : 

Qualify,  when  to  . . .  9,  14 

Removal,  Grounds  for,  and  how  . 10,  11,  128 

Salary  and  compensation  . . 18,  22 

Subpoena,  may  issue,  when .  132 

Taxes,  collection  of  .  31 

Term  of  office  . . . 7,  9 

Vacancy  in  office,  how  filled  .  15 

Vote  in  meeting’s,  when  shall  not  .  11 

COMMISSIONS  OF  OFFICERS : 

Mayor  to  sign  . 24 

COMMITTEES : 

Mayor  to  appoint  .  7 

COMPENSATION  OF  EMPLOYEES: 

Commissioners  to  regulate  and  prescribe  . . 18,  56 

CONCERTS : 

Musical,  in  parks  and  plazas  .  71 

Theatrical  entertainments,  regarding  .  77 

CONDEMNATION  PROCEEDINGS: 

Acquiring  property  for  City  purposes . 1,  57,  58,  97,98 

Procedure,  Rules  and  law  governing  .  98 

CONDUCT,  DISORDERLY : 

To  prevent  and  suppress  . 81,86 

CONTAGIOUS  DISEASES: 

Prevent  introduction  of  . 60 

CONTRACTS : 

City  may  make  . 1 

Debt  or  claim.  No  provision  for  payment.  Void .  40 

Mayor  to  sign  . . . . .  7 

Officers  and  employees  shall  not  benefit  by  .  11 

Ordinance  authorizing  required  .  20 

Suit  on,  how  compromised  .  47 

When  effective  without  Mayor’s  signature  .  7 


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Section 

CONVEYANCE  OF  PROPERTY: 

Ordinance  required  .  20 

Power  conferred  .  1 

CORPORATE  NAME  .  1 

CORPORATE  POWERS: 

By  whom  exercised  .  7,  48 

General  grant  of  .  1 

CORPORATE  SEAI. .  l 

CORPORATION  COURT: 

Cases  in,  supervision  of  .  29 

Fees,  Officers  of  Not  entitled  to  .  34 

Judge  of : 

Nomination  and  election  .  16 

Duties  of  . 34 

Jurisdiction : 

Generally  .  34 

Misdemeanors  . 78 

Judgment  of.  Enforcement  .  100 

Maximum  fine  or  imprisonment  . 100 

COSTS  AND  FEES: 

Of  office,  Officers  not  entitled  to  . 34,  41 

Shall  be  paid  into  City  Depository  . 41 

COST  BOND: 

City  not  required  to  give  . 45 

CREDITORS  OF  CITY : 

Action  against  Depository  and  Sureties,  when  .  109 

Claims  in  favor  of  .  124 

Entitledito  warrants,  when . 112,  114 

Execution  on  judgments,  prohibited  .  42 

Judgments  in  favor  of,  how  paid  . 42,  43 

CROSSINGS  AND  CULVERTS: 

Establishment  and  regulation .  68 

Railroad  and  street  railways,  requirement  .  94 


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Section 

CRUELTY  TO  ANIMALS: 

Authority  to  prohibit  . . . .  82 

CURB  AND  GUTTER : 

Property  owners  to  construct  . . .  91 

To  keep  clean  and  sanitary  .  92 

CURRENT  EXPENSES: 

Annual  budget  required  . . .  27 

Basis  of  estimate  for  budget  .  39 

Payment  of  .  52 


DAMS : 

Obstructing  rivers  and  streams  .  67 

DAMAGES : 

City  liable  for,  when .  46 

Depository  liable  for,  when  .  109 

Injuries  from  defective  sidewalks  . .  46 

Notice  of  claim  required  .  46 

Police  officers,  not  liable  for,  when  .  42 

DANCES : 

Ball  rooms,  license  and  regulation  .  75 

Public  balls  and  dances  .  85 

DEADLY  WEAPONS : 

Carrying  of,  to  prohibit  .  81 

DEATHS : 

Registration  of,  to  provide  . . .  84 

DEBT  OR  CLAIM : 

Bonded  indebtedness  . 53,  54 

Certificate  of,  officers  not  to  issue .  113 

Duty  of  City  Attorney  regarding  .  40 

Execution  on  judgment,  prohibited .  42 


XVI 


Section 

DEBT  OR  CLAIM  (Contd.) : 

Filing  of,  with  Auditor  .  124 

For  current  expenses,  how  paid  .  52 

Owing  by  City,  not  subject  to  garnishment  .  44 

Payment  of,  to  provide  for . 42,  43,  55 

Suit  on,  may  be  compromised,  how .  47 

Void,  when . 40 

Warrants  for,  when  entitled  to  . , . 112,  114 

DELINQUENT  TAXES : 

General  provisions  regarding  . . . 120  to  123 

DEPOSITORY,  CITY: 

All  funds  of  City  to  be  deposited  . . .  32 

Bond  or  surety  required  .  110 

Checks  or  warrants  on,  how  signed  . 24,  32 

Comr.  of  Taxation,  deposit  funds  daily  .  7 

Drafts  on,  Acct.  Improvement  Funds  . . .  108 

Drafts  on,  Acct.  Sinking  Funds  . . .  108 

Fees,  fines,  etc.,  to  be  paid  into . —  41 

General  duties  and  requirements  of  .  32 

Interest,  may  not  charge  except . . .  32 

Selection  of,  how  made  .  110 

Warrants : 

Discount  of,  forbidden .  32 

How  signed  . x . 24,  32 

Payment  of,  by  . 32 

Payment  of,  may  refuse  when  .  32 

Withdrawal  of  funds  from  . . .  41 

Wrongful  diversion  of  funds  .  109 

DEPOT  GROUNDS : 

Location  of,  to  regulate .  94 

DISEASE: 

Contagious,  to  prevent  introduction  .  60 

Suppression  of  .  59 


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Section 

DISORDERLY  CONDUCT : 

To  prevent  and  suppress  . . . . . 81,86 

DISORDERLY  HOUSES : 

To  suppress  and  restrain  . . . . . . .  75 

DISTRICTS,  IMPR0VE:MENT  : 

Borrowing  money  on  credit  of  . . . ..54,  55 

DISTURBANCES : 

To  prevent  and  suppress  . . . 81,86 

DITCHES : 

To  regulate  generally  . . . . . . . . .  67 

Railroads,  crossing  . . . . . . .  94 

DOGS : 

Fighting,  to  prevent  and  prohibit  . * .  85 

Running  at  large,  to  regulate .  83 

DRAINS: 

Private,  to  fill  up  and  cleanse  . . .  62 

Streets,  Gutters,  etc.,  to  keep  open . . .  92 

DRAYMEN,  ETC. : 

To  license  and  regulate  . . .  76 

DRIVING,  IMMODERATE : 

To  prevent  and  prohibit  .  82 

DRUGS: 

Poisonous,  To  regulate  sale  of  . . .  70 


E 

EDUCATIONAL  ESTABLISHMENTS: 


Inspection  and  regulation  .  88 

ELECTIONS : 

City  Council  may  regulate . . . .  4 

Elective  officers,  who  are  . . .  9 

Employees  and  laborers,  not  to  increase  before  .  Ill 


xviii 


ELECTIONS  (Contd.) : 

For  bond  issues  . 

For  taking-  over  public  utilties . 

Franchises  for  private  purposes . 

Law  and  rules  governing . . 

Municipal,  Primary : 

Announcement  of  Candidates  . 

Nominees,  who  are  . 

Official  Ballot: 

Clerk  to  deliver  . 

Form  and  arrangement  of  . 

When  to  be  held  . . . . . 

Municipal,  Regular  or  General : 

Ballot  for.  How  arranged  . . 

By  whom  ordered  . . . 

Candidates  for.  How  selected . . . 

Laws  and  rules  governing  . 

Supervision  of  . 

When  to  be  held  . 

Municipal,  Special : 

Rules  governing  . 

When  authorized  . 

Officers  of : 

Compensation  of  . 

Qualification  of  . . . . . 

Selection  of.  How  made  . 

Ordinances,  Proposed  by  Citizens  . 

Provisions  regarding.  Generally  . 

Referendum,  Recall  of  Elective  Officers 

Returns  of.  How  made . 

Voters,  Qualifications  of . 

Wards  and  Precincts : 

City  Council  to  establish  . 

Not  to  change  before . . . 


Section 


53,  54,  55 

.  58 

.  101 

.  12 


...  12 

...  12 

...  12 

12, 128 
...  12 


12 

12 

12 

12 

12 

12 


12 
1 5 


6 

6,12 
6,  12 
129 


. .  12 

.  128 

.  4,  12 

.,...4,  5,  12 

3 

3 


xix 

Section 

ELECTRIC  LIGHT  PLANTS : 

Condemnation  of  property  for  . . . . . 97.  98 

Construction  of  by  City  . . . . . 57,  58 

Light,  Public  and  private  use  . . .  57 

Private  plants,  City  may  acquire  . . . . .  57 

Rates,  regulation  of  . . . . . . .  57 

Wires,  poles,  etc..  Construction  of . . .  63 

EMPLOYEES  AND  LABORERS : 

Commissioners  to  select  . . . . .  16 

Increasing  before  elections,  prohibited . . . . .  Ill 

ENCROACHMENTS : 

On  public  property,  to  abate,  etc . . . 68,  90 

ENGINEER,  CITY : 

Not  to  give  lines  in  Additions,  unless  . . .  90 

EQUALIZATION  BOARD: 

Commissioners  to  act  as . . . . . . .  116 

Duties  and  powers  of  . . . . .  116 

EVIDENCE : 

Charter  and  certified  copies,  as  . . . . . 36,  37,  125 

EXCESS  IN  GENERAL  FUND  . 52, 108 

EXECUTIONS : 

Certain  private  cemetery  lots  exempt . .  49 

Shall  not  issue  against  City  . . . . . 42,  43 

EXEMPTIONS : 

From  taxation  and  forced  sale  . . . 43,49,  106 

Security  or  bond  for  cost,  not  required . . .  45 

EXHIBITS,  FINANCIAL  . . . 28,  33,  124 

EXPENSES,  CURRENT  . . . . . . . .  52 


XX 


F 

Section 

FACTORIES : 

Buildings  for,  to  inspect  and  regulate  . .  72 

Erection  of,  on  streams  .  67 

Location  of,  to  regulate  .  61 

FEES: 

I 

Inspecition  and  license . . . 66,  96 

Official,  officers  not  entitled  to  .  41 

Payment,  into  City  Depository  .  41 

FIGHTING: 

Cock,  dog  and  bull  fighting,  to  prevent  .  85 

Fighting,  quarreling,  assault,  etc.,  to  prevent .  86 

FINANCES: 

Care  and  management  of  . 19,  51 

Condition  at  close  of  fiscal  year,  to  be  published .  28 

FINES : 

Assessment  of  for  failure  to  obey  ordinances  .  100 

Imprisonment  for  failure  to  pay .  100 

Maximum  amount  of  .  100 

Mayor  may  remit  .  25 

Payment  of,  into  City  Depository  . , .  41 

Refusal  to  obey  call  for  posse  comitatus  .  25 

FIRE  AND  POLICE,  DEPARTMENT  OF: 

Commissioner  of,  Powers  and  Duties  .  7 

Department,  Creation  of  .  7 

Employees  for,  who  to  select  . . .  16 

Fire  limits  and  regulations  .  89 

Operating  and  contingent  expenses,  estimate  of  .  36 

Removal  of  employees,  manner  of  .  17 

FIREWORKS: 

Firing  of,  may  be  prohibited .  93 

FISCAL  YEAR: 

Defined  . 118 


XXI 


Section 

FISH: 

Inspection  of  .  69 

FOUNDARIES : 

Location,  may  be  directed  .  61 

FRANCHISES : 

Assignment  of,  what  necessary . ^ . .  102 

Forfeiture  of,  when  . 102,  104 

Granting  of : 

Conditions  precedent  to  . - .  105 

Ordinance  required  .  20 

Quorum  for,  generally .  19 

Votes  necessary,  for  use  streets .  101 

Ordinance  granting.  Citizens  may  vote,  how  .  101 

Persons  holding.  Records  may  be  examined  .  99 

Taxation,  subject  to . 30,  106 

Term  for  which  .may  be  granted .  103 

Termination  of  . —  103 

Use  of  public  streets : 

Affirmative  vote  four  Commissioners 

necessary  . . . 101 

Conditions  embodied  in  grant  of  . . .  104 

For  private  purposes,  void  . 101 

Vote  on.  Citizens  may,  how  .  101 

FRAUDULENT  DEVICES: 

To  suppress  and  restrain  . 75 

FRUIT: 


Offered  for  sale.  Inspection  of 


69 


FUNDS : 

Accounts,  Separate  . 

General  . : . 

Sinking . . . . . 

Special  . . . 

Transfer  of.  Prohibited  except  ... 
Warrants,  Regulations  regarding 
Wrongful  diversion  of  . 


.  33 

32,  33,  52,  106,  108,  109 

. 53,  54,  108,  109 

. 66,  106,  108,  109 

.  108 

. . .  108 

. 109 


XXll 


G 

Section 

GAMBLING: 

Suppression  and  restraint  of  . 73,  75,  78 

GARDENS,  ZOOLOGICAL : 

To  establish  and  maintain  .  71 

GARNISHMENT : 

Shall  not  issue  against  City  .  44 

GAS  AND  GAS  PLANTS : 

Condemnation  of  property  for  . 97,  98 

Construction  of  by  City  . . . . . . 57,  58 

Pipes,  laying  and  repairing  .  63 

Private  plants.  City  may  acquire  .  57 

Rates,  regulation  of  .  57 

GENERAL  FUND: 

Excess  in,  may  be  transferred  .  108 

GOVERNMENT,  MUNICIPAL: 

Administrative  and  executive  powers  distributed  .  7 

Governing  body,  name  of  .  7 

Incorporation  of,  and  corporate  name  .  1 

Shall  consist  of  whom  . . .  7 

Succeeds  to  all  rights,  actions,  etc .  48 

Suits,  not  required  to  secure  cost  of .  45 

GROUNDS : 

Private  . 62,  64,  97,  98 

Public  . . . 71,  90,  97 

GUTTERS : 

To  compel  cleaning  of .  92 


XXUl 


Section 

HACKS  AND  HACKMEN : 

To  license  and  regulate  . .  76 

HAWKERS  AND  PEDDLERS: 

To  license,  regulate,  etc . . . .  77 

HAY : 

Weighing  of,  etc . . .  80 

HEALTH : 

General  provisions  regarding  . . 59,  100 

Special  provisions 

regarding . . . 60,  61,  62,  67,  68,  69,  72,  99 

HIDES: 

Curing  of,  to  prohibit  . . .  61 

Of  animals  slaughtered,  to  be  exhibited  .  69 

HIGHWAYS,  ETC.: 

Construction  and  maintenance  . . . - . . .  7 

Control  and  power  over  . . . . . . .  90 

Railroads  on  or  across . - . - . . .  94 

HOMESTEAD : 

Not  subject  to  lien  for  street  improvements  .  91 

HOOPS : 

To  prohibit  and  restrain  rolling  of  .  98 

HORNS  AND  BUGLES: 

To  restrain  and  regulate  blowing  of . . . . .  93 

HORSES: 

Immoderate  driving  and  running  of  . . . . .  82 

Running  at  large,  to  regulate  and  prohibit . . .  83 

HOSPITALS : 

Power  to  establish  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  60 

Reports  from.  May  require . . . . .  88 


XXIV 


Section 

HOTELS  AND  PUBLIC  HOUSES: 

$ 

Runners  for,  to  license  and  regulate  . .  76 

HOUSES: 

Assignation,  to  suppress  and  restrain  .  75 

Correction,  to  establish  and  regulate  .  65 

Disorderly  and  prostitution  . 75,  78,  87 

Public,  Runners  for  .  76 

School,  to  inspect  buildings  used  for  . . .  88 

School,  to  appropriate  private  property  for  .  98 


I 


IMPROVEMENT  DISTRICTS: 

Borrowing  money  on  credit  of .  54 

Issuing  bonds  for  debt  of  . . .  54 


IMPROVEMENTS,  PUBLIC : 

Permanent,  To  borrow  money,  etc.,  for . 53,  54,  55 

Warrants  issued  for  payment  of  . 108,  112 

INDECENCIES : 

Generally,  to  suppress  .  75 

Lewd  or  immodest  theatrical  representations  .  77 


INDEBTEDNESS: 

Bonds,  General  provisions  for  . 53,  54,  55,  108 

Certificate  of,  officers  not  to  issue . . .  113 

City  Bonds,  not  taxable  . . .  106 

Current  expenses,  for  . 52,  55 

Improvement  districts,  bonds  for  . . . : . 54,  55 

Judgments,  payment  of  . 42,43,  112 

Owing  by  City  not  subject  to  garnishment .  44 

Payment  of,  provisions  generally . 42,  43,  52,  55,  112 

Public  utilities,  acquired  by  City,  for  . 57,  58 

Special  fund  for  payment  of . ' .  108 

Suit  on,  may  be  compromised,  how .  47 


XXV 


.  Section 

INDEBTEDNESS  (Contd.) : 

Unbonded  debt,  regarding  . , .  124 

Void,  when  .  40 

Warrants  for,  when  entitled  to . ^ . 112,  114 

INJURIES: 

Notice  of,  to  Mayor  required  .  46 

INSANE  PERSONS: 

Asylum  for,  Inspection  of  building .  88 

INSPECTION  : 

Of  Buildings,  generally  . . . 72.  8  ' 

Building  material  .  80 

Meat,  fish,  vegetables,  etc .  69 

Trades,  professions,  etc . ^ .  99 

Weights  and  measures .  79 

INTEREST: 

Depositories  may  not  charge,  except .  32 

Tax  levied  for,  on  bonds  . . . 53,  54,  55 

INTOXICATING  LIQUORS .  73 

J 

J  UDGE,  JUROR  OR  JUSTICE  : 

Citizen  not  disqualified  to  serve  as  .  42 

JUDGMENTS: 

Execution  on,  not  to  be  issued  or  levied  .  42 

Levy  of  taxes  for  payment  of  . 42,  43 

Warrants  in  payment  of  . .  112 

JURISDICTION: 

Of  City  generally  .  2 


XXVI 


K 

Section 

KITES: 

Flying  of,  to  prohibit  and  restrain  .  93 

L 

LABORERS: 

Commissioners  to  select .  16 

Number  of,  not  to  be  increased,  when  . . .  Ill 

Wages  of,  not  assignable .  113 

Wages  of,  how  paid  . Ill,  113 

Wages  of,  how  fixed  . LS,  56 

LANDS : 

Acquisition  and  conveyance  of,  generally  .  1,20 

Conveyance  of,  by  ordinance  only  .  20 

Purpose,  may  be  acquired  for . 1,  84,  97,  98 

LANGUAGE : 

Abusive  and  insulting,  use  of  .  86 

LEASE  OF  PROPERTY: 

City  may,  generally  .  1,20 

Ordinance  necessary .  20 

LIBRARIES: 

Carnegie,  levy  tax  for  .  66 

Establish  and  erect.  City  may  .  66 

Funds  for,  may  provide  . . .  66 

LICENSE  FEES : 

Collection  of,  by  .  31 

For  certain  inspections  and  callings . 69,  75,  76,  77,  85 

General  provisions  regarding  . .  99 

LIEN: 

For  construction  of  sidewalks .  91 

For  taxes  due  City  .  121 


XXVll 


Section 

LIGHTING: 

City  to  provide,  manner  . . .  57 

Electric  light  plants : 

Acquisition  of  property  for .  97 

City  may  acquire  existing  plants  .  58 

City  may  regulate  rates  .  58 

Condemnation  of  private  property  for .  98 

Laying  of  wires,  may  regulate  .  63 

LIMITS: 

City,  defined  and  determined  .  2 

Precincts,  how  fixed  .  3 

Wards,  how  fixed  . 3 

LIMITATION : 

Actions  for  taxes .  123 

City  Attorney  must  plead  . . . . .  40 

LIQUORS,  INTOXICATING  .  73 

LIVERY  STABLES : 

Location  of,  to  direct  .  61 

Regulation  of.  City  may  . . .  61 

LOCOMOTIVE  ENGINES : 

Speed  of,  to  regulate  .  94 

LOTS: 

Filling  and  drainage  of,  etc .  62 

LOTTERIES : 

To  suppress  and  restrain .  75 

LUMBER: 

Measuring  of,  to  provide  and  regulate .  80 


XXVlll 


M 

Section 

MALT  LIQUORS  . 73 

MANUFACTORIES : 

Location,  City  may  direct  .  61 

Regulation,  inspection,  etc .  99 

MARKET  HOUSES:  . 61,  69,  98 

MAYOR 

Acts  of,  certain  prohibited  .  11 

Appointive  officers,  nominated  by .  16 

Bond  and  oath  of  office .  13 

Budget,  submitted  annually  . 27,  39 

Budget,  estimate  for,  basis  of  .  39 

Chairman  Board  of  Health  .  7 

Chief  executive  officer  of  the  City .  23 

Damages,  notice  of,  given  to  . . .  46 

Department  employees . . . 16 

Department  of  Public  Affairs  in  General,  Head  of .  7 

Election  and  qualification  of  .  7,  9 

Election  to  office,  time  of .  12 

Fines,  Mayor  may  remit  . . .  25 

Member  Board  of  Commissioners  . . . - .  7 

Member  Board  of  Equalization  .  116 

Militia,  May  call  out  when  . . .  25 

Municipal  elections,  ordered  by  .  12 

Oaths  and  affirmations,  may  administer  .  132 

Office  of,  who  eligible  to .  8 

Pardons,  Mayor  may  grant .  25 

Powers  and  duties  of. 


Pre-election  promises  forbidden  .  18a 

Qualify  as  Mayor,  when  to  . . . 9,  14 

Removal  and  suspension  from  office  . 10,  11,  128 

Salary  of  . . . . . . .  18 


XXIX 


Section 

MAYOR  (Contd.)  : 

Special  meetings  of  Commissioners,  may  call  .  21 

Subpoena,  may  issue,  when . . . . .  Id2 

Term  of  office  . . . . . . .  7,  9 

V^acancy  in  office,  how  filled  .  15 

Veto  power,  vested  in  .  26 

Vote,  Commissioners’  meetings,  may  not  when  .  11 

MAYOR,  PRO-TEMPORE: 

Corporation  Court,  to  preside  over,  when  . . .  34 

Election  of,  how  and  when  .  22 

Salary  of  . . . IS,  22 

MEASURES  AND  WEIGHTS  . 79,  80 

MEAT  MARKETS  . 61,69 

MENDICANTS  .  78 

MERCHANTS: 

License,  regulate  and  inspect  . . .  99 

Weights  and  measures,  to  regulate  .  79 

MILITIA : 

Mayor  may  call  out,  when  .  25 

MILK : 

Standard  of,  to  establish  and  maintain  .  69 

MISDEMEANORS: 

City  may  prevent  and  prohibit  .  86 

Corporation  Court,  jurisdiction  of . 34,  78 

Fines,  maximum  .  100 

Imprisonment,  maximum  .  100 

Judgment  for,  how  enforced  . . .  100 

Penalty,  assessed  in  certain  cases . 78 

Punishment,  by  fine  and  imprisonment  .  100 

MORPHINE: 

Sale  of,  to  regulate  .  70 


XXX 


Section 


MORTALITY  RECORDS: 

Keeping  of,  to  direct  . . .  84 

MOTOR  VEHICLES : 

Blocking  streets  and  alleys  by  .  92 

Immoderate  driving  of .  82 

Railroad,  provisions  regarding  .  94 

MULES : 

Running  at  large,  to  impound  .  83 

MUNICIPAL  GOVERNMENT : 

Corporate  name  and  seal . 1 

Corporate  powers  .  1 

Governing  Body : 

How  composed) .  7 

Name  of  . 7 

Powers  of  .  7 

MUSIC: 

On  streets,  may  restrain  and  prohibit  . 78,  93 

Public  concerts,  may  provide  for  .  71 


N 


NOISES: 

May  prevent  and  restrain  . 81,93 

NOTICE : 

Of  injury,  to  be  made  to  Mayor  .  46 

NUISANCES: 

Regarding,  generally . 51,  61,  67,  68,  90,  93 


O 


OATH  AND  BOND: 
Of  City  Officers 


13 


XXXI 


Section 

OCCUPATIONS : 

]\lay  license,  regulate  and  inspect  .  99 

OCCUPATION  TAXES: 

Amount  and  collection  of . 31,  107 

Commissioners  may  levy  .  107 

OFFAL : 

Rendering  of,  may  restrain  and  abolish  .  61 

OFFICERS,  CITY: 

Appointive  officers : 

Duties  and  powers,  who  may  prescribe . . .  56 

List  of  offices,  appointive  .  16 

Nomination  of,  By  Mayor  . . . . .  16 

Promises  inducing  appointment  . . .  18-a 

Salary  of,  how  fixed  . . . 17,  18,  56 

Board  of  Equalization,  who  are . . .  116 

Bond  and  oath  of  office  . . .  13 

Certificate  of  indebtedness,  not  to  issue  . . .  113 

Claims  against  City,  not  to  purchase .  11 

Commissions,  who  to  sign  .  24 

Contracts  of  City,  shall  not  be  interested  in  .  22 

Discharge  of,  manner  and  cause . . .  17 

Elective  oficers : 

Defined,  who  are .  9 

Must  qualify,  when  . . . . .  14 

Pre-election  promises,  forbidden  . 18-a 

Removal  from  office,  how  . . . 10,  1 1 

Vacancies,  how  filled  .  15 

Fees  of  office,  not  entitled  to .  41 

General  eligibility  . 8 

Offices  created  and  abolished .  16 

Old  officers,  to  continue  until .  50 

Other  employment  under  City,  not  to  hold  .  11 

Surety,  officers  not  to  be . . . . . . .  11 

Tenu  of  office . .  . . ^....9,  17,  50 


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Section 

OFFICERS,  CITY  (Contd.) : 

Wages,  shall  not  assign . . .  113 

Warrants,  when  entitled  to  . Ill,  113,  114 

Writ  of  garnishment,  not  required  to  answer .  44 

OFFICIAL  BALLOT: 

General  and  Primary  Election,  form  of .  12 

Recall  Election,  form  of  . . . . .  128 

OIL  PIPES: 

Construction  and  laying  of  .  63 

OMNIBUSES  . - . - .  76 

OPIUM : 

Regulate  sale  of  . . .  70 

ORDINANCES: 

Adoption  of,  votes  necessary  . 19,  101 

Authority  to  pass . 1,  35,  51,  90,  100 

Citizens  may  propose,  how .  129 

Debt,  void  unless  authorized  by . . . . .  40 

Effective,  when . 26,  36,  105,  130,  131 

Enacting  clause  .  35 

Enactment  of  . 51 

Enforcement  of  . : .  25 

Franchise,  necessity  of  . . : .  102 

Old  ordinances,  continued  in  force  .  50 

Penal  ordinances,  when  effective  .  36 

Power  to  pass  . . . 1,  35,  51,  90,  100 

Protest  against  passage  of,  how  . •. .  131 

Publication  of,  pamphlet  form  .  36 

Publication  of,  in  newspapers,  when  . 36,  105,  130,  131 

Quorum  for  passing . 19,  20,  101 

Repeal  of,  by  citizens,  how . . .  129 

Required,  when  .  20 

Special  fund  created  by  .  108 

Taxes,  levied  by  . 106,  107 

\Ato  of,  by  Mayor  . 26 


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Section 

ORGANS,  STREET: 

Playing  of,  to  restrain  .  93 

P 

PARDONS : 

Mayor  may  grant  . . . . .  25 

PARKS  AND  PLEASURE  GROUNDS : 

Authority  to  purchase,  maintain,  etc .  71 

Care  and  maintenance . . . .  7 

Exclusive  control  over . . .  90 

Private  property,  may  be  taken  for  . . . 97,  98 

PASSES  AND  RAILROAD  TICKETS : 

Issuance  and  sale  of,  to  regulate  .  96 

PAVING : 

Of  streets,  sidewalks,  etc . 91,  92,  94 

PAWNBROKERS : 

To  license  and,  regulate  .  77 

PAYMENT  OF  DEBTS  AND  EXPENSES: 

Current,  to  provide  for . . .  52 

Issuing  bonds  for  .  55 

Unauthorized,  must  not  pay  .  40 

W'arrants,  when  to  issue  . 112,  113,  114 

PAY  ROLLS: 

•  Day  laborers,  etc.,  payment  of . . .  Ill 

May  be  in  one  warrant,  when  . . .  113 

PEACE : 

Disturbance  of  .  86 

PEDDLERS: 

Crying  of  goods  on  streets,  etc . . .  -93 

License,  regulate,  etc.,  provision  for .  77 


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Section 

PENALTY : 

Assessed,  violation,  penal  ordinance  .  100 

Delinqeunt  taxes,  when  . . . . . . .  120 

For  violation  of  ordinance,  may  remit  .  25 

On  delinquent  taxes,  may  not  remit  .  120 

PEST  HOUSES : 

Establishment  of  .  60 

PHYSICIANS: 

Births  and  deaths,  report  of  . . .  84 

Sale  of  poisonous  drugs,  prescription  of .  70 

PIN  ALLEYS : 

License  and  regulate,  to  .  75 

POLICE : 

Appointment  of . 16,  25 

Damages,  not  liable  for,  when  . . .  42 

Fees,  not  entitled  to  .  41 

Police  force,  to  establish  and  regulate .  7,  25 

Police  Regulations : 

Enactment  of  . 100 

Enforcement  of  . . . 7,  25,  100 

Removal  of  . 17 

Salary  of,  how  fixed . ^ . 18,  56 

Special,  appointment  of .  25 

POLL  TAX,  CITY : 

Provisions  regarding,  repealed .  133 

POOR  HOUSES : 

To  establish  and  regulate  one  or  more  .  65 

PORTERS : 

License  and  regulate,  to  . 76 

POSSE  COMITATUS : 

Mayor  may  summons  .  25 


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Section 

POUNDS,  PUBLIC : 

Establish  and  regulate,  To  . . . . . -  83 

Supervision  of,  by  whom . . . - . . . .  .  7 

PRISONS : 

To  establish  and  regulate  .  65 

PRIVIES: 

Location  of,  to  direct  . . .  61 

Regulation  of,  generally  . . . . .  62 

PROFESSIONS : 

To  license  and  regulate . . .  99 

PROPERTY : 

Public,  Care  and  control  of  . 7,  51,  90 

Public  buildings,  Erection  of  . . . .  64 

Public,  Exempt  from  execution  . . . . . . . 42,  43 

Private,  May  condemn  . . . . . . . „.l,  97,  98 

Utilities,  Alay  acquire  from  private  owners  . .  57,  58 

PROSTITUTES  AND  PROSTITUTION : 

Houses  of,  to  suppress  and  prevent  . , . 75,  87 

Keepers,  Houses  of,  to  punish  . . . 78,  87 

PUBLIC  AFFAIRS  IN  GENERAL, 

DEPART:\IENT  of  : 

Department  created  . . .  7  , 

Employees  of.  Selection  and  removal  . . . 16,  17 

Mayor  to  have  charge  of . . . . .  7 

Operating  and  contingent  expenses : 

Estimate  of,  for  current  year .  39 

PUBLIC  BUILDINGS: 

Care  and  maintenance  . . . . .  7 

Exemption  from  execution  . . . . . 42,  43 

Management  and  control  of,  Generally  . . . 51,90 

PUBLIC  HOUSES: 

Runners  for,  to  restrain  . . . . .  76 


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Sf^ction 

PUBLIC  IMPROVEMENTS : 

Bonds  to  issue  for  . . . 53,  54 

PUBLIC  PLACES : 

Of  various  kinds,  provisions 

for . . . . . 77,  81,  85,  90,  92,  93,  94,  101 

PUBLIC  UTILITIES: 

City  may  acquire  or  construct  . 

Corporations,  may  examine  records,  etc.,  of 
Property  for,  City  may  condemn . 

PUNISHMENT: 

By  fine  or  imprisonment .  100 

Mayor  may  remit  or  pardon  . . .  25 

PURCHASING  AGENT,  CITY: 

Appointment  and  election  of  . 

Bond  of,  required  . 

Duties  of.  Generally  . 

Qualification  of  . 

Purchase  by,  on  competitivebids 

Removal  of.  Manner . 

Salary  of.  Fixed  . . . 

Shall  not  hold  other  office,  etc.  ... 

Term  of  Office  . 

PYROTECHNICS: 

Firing  of, 'to  prohibit  . . .  93 


16 

127 

127 

127 

127 

17 

127 

11 

17 


.57,  58  ■ 
99 
97, 98 


QUARANTINE : 

Against  contagious  diseases  . . .  60 

QUARRELING: 

To  prevent  and  prohibit . . .  86 


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Section 

QUORUM : 

Commissioners  Meeting’  what  constitutes  . 19,  20 

Granting  franchises  for  use  of  streets .  101 

R 

RAILROADS  AND  RAILWAYS : 

Control  and  regulation  of  street  railways  .  95 

Crossings,  May  regulate  .  94 

Depot  grounds,  Location  of  .  94 

Street  railways.  City  mUy  acquire  .  58 

Street  Railways,  control  and  regulation  .  95 

Tickets  and  passes,  sale  of  . . .  96 

Tracks  for.  Laying  and  construction .  94 

RECALL : 

Of  elective  officers,  procedure  .  128 

RECORDS: 

Certified  copies  of,  as  evidence  . ^ . 36,  37 

Citizens  may  inspect  and  take  copies .  38 

REEERENDUM  : 

Franchise,  on  granting  of  .  101 

Elective  oficers,  for  removal  of .  128 

REPEALING  CLAUSE : 

General  law  shall  not  repeal,  except  . , .  125 

Ordinances  not  in  conflict,  not  repealed .  50 

Previous  Charter  .  126 

REPORTS  OF  OFFICERS: 

Auditor,  to  make  quarterly  .  33 

City  Depository,  to  make  monthly  . . .  32 

Commissioner  of  Taxation,  To  Auditor  .  31 

Financial  condition.  Mayor  to  publish  annually  .  28 

Generally,  Mayor  may  require  .  24 

Heads  of  Departments,  To  Mayor  . . .  39 

Mayor,  To  Commissioners  . . . 27,  39 


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Section 


RESOLUTIONS : 

Commissioners  may  act  by,  when  .  20 

REVENUE: 

Collection  of,  Department  of  Taxation  .  7 

For  payment  of  current  expenses  .  52 

License  fees,  etc.,  Collection  of . , .  31 

RIOTS: 

Mayor  may  call  out  militia  to  suppress  .  25 

Power  to  prevent  and  suppress .  81 

ft 

RIVERS  AND  STREAMS : 

To  prevent,  pollution  of,  etc .  67 


SALARIES : 

Appointive  officers,  How  fixed  . 17,  18,  56 

Board  of  Equalization  .  116 

City  Purchasing  Agent  .  127 

Elective  officers,  fixed . . . *  18 

Employees  and  day  laborers  . 17,  18,  56 

SALE: 

City  authorized  to  dispose  of  its  property  .  1 

Delinquent  taxes,  sale  of  property  for  . 121,  122 

SANITATION : 

Care  and  maintenance  of  . 7,  68,  90 

Property,  City  may  acquire  for  . 1,  97,  98 

School  buildings,  etc..  Report  of  sanitary 

condition  .  88 

SANITATION,  PARKS  AND  PUBLIC  PROPERTY, 
DEPARTMENT  OF: 

Commissioner  of,  General  powers  and  duties  .  7 

Department  created  . 7 


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Section 

SANITATION,  PxARKS  AND  PUBLIC  PROPERTY, 
DEPARTMENT  OF,  (Contd.)  : 

Employees  for.  How  selected  .  16 

Employees  for,  How  removed  .  17 

Operating  and  contingent  expenses,  estimate  .  39 

SCHOOL  AND  SCHOOL  HOUSES : 

Appropriation  of  private  property  for  .  98 

Inspection  of  buildings  used  for  .  88 

SEAL,  CORPORATE  . . .  I 

SEWERS : 

Care  and  maintenance  . . 7,  68,  90 

City  may  acquire  property  for . 1,97,98 

Owners  of  property,  to  connect  with  .  62 

Railroad  crossing,  regulating  .  94 

Sewer  farm  not  to  be  conveyed  or  leased . .  1 

SEXTONS : 

Records  kept  by.  To  regulate  .  84 

SHADE  TREES: 

Planting  of,  on  sidewalks,  public  grounds,  etc .  71 

SHEEP: 

Running  at  large,  May  prohibit . . .  83 

SHOWS : 

May  license  and  regulate .  77 

SIDEWALKS : 

Commissioners  to  have  exclusive  control  of .  90 

Encroachments  on.  May  regulate  . . . 68,  90 

Establishment,  care  and  regulation  of  . 68,  90 

Defects  and  obstructions.  Injuries  from  .  46 

Laying  of.  May  compel  property  owners  to . . .  91 

Nuisances  on.  May  prohibit  .  93 

Shade  trees  on,  May  regulate  planting  of . . .  71 


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Section 

SINKING  FUNDS: 

To  assess  and  collect  annually  on  bond  issues  . . 53,  54 

SINKS: 

Owner  to  fill  up,  cleanse,  etc . . .  62 

SLAUGHTERING  ESTABLISHMENTS: 

Location,  may  direct  .  61 

Regulation,  inspection,  etc . 61.69 

STABLES : 

Location  and  regulation  of  . . .  61 

STAGES : 

Runners  for,  may  regulate  . . . . .  76 

STOCK  YARDS : 

Location,  regulation,  etc .  61 

STREET  CARS: 

Speed  of,  may  regulate  . : .  94 

STREET  RAILWAYS : 

Control  and  Regulation  . 95 

STREETS  AND  HIGHWAYS: 

Construction  and  improvement  . 7 

Control  over,  exclusive  .  90 

Driving  on,  immoderate  . . .  82 

Franchise  for  use  of,  generally . . .  101 

Incumbering  or  blocking,  may  prohibit  .  92 

Injuries  from  defects  or  obstructions  .  46 

Lines  for.  Engineer  not  to  give,  when  .  90 

Nuisances  on.  May  prohibit  . . .  93 

Prisoners  may  be  required  to  work  on  .  100 

Property  for,  May  acquire,  how  . 97,  98 

Railways  on.  May  regulate  .  95 

Shade  trees  on,  planting  of .  71 

Sidewalks  on,  property  owners  to  construct  .  91 


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Section 

STREETS  AND  PUBLIC  IMPROVEMENTS, 
DEPARTMENT  OF : 

Commissioner  of,  General  powers  and  duties  .  7 

Department,  creation  of  .  7 

Employees  of,  who  to  select .  16 

Operating  and  contingent  expenses,  estimate  of .  39 

Removal  of  employees.  Manner  of .  17 

vSUBDIVISIONS: 

Plat  of  not  to  be  filed,  except  .  90 

Sewer  Farm,  for  cemetery  purposes  .  1 

SUBWAYS : 

May  require  railways  to  construct  .  94 

SUITS : 

Compromise  of,  when  . 47 

Delinquent  taxes,  collection  of  . . . 121,  122,  123 

SUSPENSION  OF  OFFICERS : 

Cause  and  procedure  . 10,  17 

T 

TANNERIES : 

Location  of,  may  direct .  61 

TAXATION : 

Assessment  for.  Manner  of  .  30 

Board  of  Equalization,  Powers  and  duties  .  116 

Budget  for.  Mayor  to  submit  annually . . .  27 

Carnegie  Libarary,  to  levy  for,  annually  . .  66 

Collection  of,  when  and  how  . . . 31,  116 

Commissioner  of.  Duties  regarding  . . . 30,  31 

Delinquent,  interest  and  penalty  on . 119,  120 

Due  and  payable,  when  . . .  119 

Exemptions  from  . . . . . 49,  106 

Indebtedness,  pay  of  provided  by  .  43 


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Section 

TAXATION  (Contd.)  : 

Interest  and  penalties,  may  not  remit  . - . . .  120 

Levy  and  assessment  of,  when . 30,  116,  117 

Lien  for,  and  foreclosure  of  . 121,  122,  123 

Limitation  of  actions  for . . .  123 

Occupations,  Levied  on  . . . .  107 

Payable  in  money  .  115 

Payment  of.  Time  for  . . . . .  116 

Poll  Tax  abolished  . . .  133 

Property  subject  to  . 30,  106,  118 

Quorum  required  to  levy  . . .  19 

Rate  of.  Maximum  amount  of  . 106,  117 

Suit  for.  May  compromise,  how  . . .  47 

Suit  for  recovery  of  . . .  122 

Taxpayers,  delinquent,  not  entitled  to  warrants  .  114 

W  arrants,  Not  receivable  in  payment  of  .  115 

TAXATION,  DEPARTMENT  OF : 

Commissioner  of.  General  Powers  and  Duties  . 7,  30,  31 

Department,  creation  of  .  7 

Employees  of,  who  to  select  . . .  16 

Operating  and  contingent  expense,  estimate  .  39 

Removal  of  employees,  Manner  of  . . . . .  17 

TAXPAYERS: 

Delinquent,  Warrants  not  to  be  issued  to .  114 

Property  taxpayers  as  voters,  who  are .  5 

Public  utitlities,  to  vote  on  City  owning .  58 

TEAMS : 

Frightening  of,  May  prohibit . . .  93 

TELEGRAPHS  AND  TELEPHONES : 

City  may  construct  or  acquire  .  58 

Rates  for,  may  regulate  . . .  63 

Wdres,  etc.,  for,  may  control  erection  of  .  63 


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Section 

THEATRES : 

Indecent,  lewd  or  immodest  representations .  77 

Intoxicating  liquors,  selling  in  connection  with  .  73 

TICKETS  AND  PASSES : 

Railroads,  may  regulate  sale  of  .  96 

TIMBER : 

Inspection  and  measurement  of  .  80 

TRADES: 

License,  regulate  and  inspect,  may  . . .  99 

WTights  and  measures,  used  by,  tested  and 

sealed  . 79 

TREES,  SPIADE: 

« 

Planting  of,  on  sidewalks,  public  grounds,  etc .  71 

U 

UNBONDED  DEBT : 

Statement  of.  Auditor  to  prepare  quarterly  .  124 

UTILITIES,  PUBLIC: 

City  may  acquire  or  construct,  how  . 57,  53 

Corporations,  may  examine  records,  etc.,  of  .  99 

Property  for.  City  may  condemn  . 97,  98 

V 

X^ACANCIES : 

Elective  offices,  when  vacant .  14 

Office  of  Mayor  or  Commissioner,  how  filled  .  15 

Removal  from  office  . 11,  17 

VACCINATION : 

City  may  enforce  .  60 

VACxRANTS : 

May  restrain,  prohibit  and  punish  .  78 


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Section 

VAUDEVILLE : 

Intoxicating  liquors,  Sale  of  in  connection  with  .  73 

VEGETABLES : 

Inspection  of,  City  may  provide  for  . . .  69 

VEHICLES : 

Charges  for,  may  prescribe  .  76 

Drivers  of,  may  regoilate .  76 

Immoderate  driving  of,  may  prevent . . .  82 

Railway,  may  regulate  speed  of  .  94 

Streets,  etc.,  blocking  of,  may  prevent . . . - .  92 

VELOCIPEDES : 

Use  of  on  streets  or  sidewalks . . .  93 

VETO : 

General  provisions  regarding . . . . .  26 

VIADUCTS : 

May  require  railroads  to  construct  . . .  94 

VOTERS : 

Qualification  of  . 4,  5,  12 

W 

WAGES : 

Assignment  or  transfer  of . . .  113 

Commissioners  shall  fix  amount  of  . . . 18,  56 

'  Garnishment,  not  recognized  . . .  44 

Officers  and  employees,  entitled  to  when . Ill,  114 

WAGONS,  BAGGAGE : 

Charges  of.  City  may  prescribe  . . .  76 

Drivers  of,  may  license,  etc . . .  76 


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Section 

WARDS : 

Change  of,  before  elections,  prohibited  .  3 

Establishment  of,  who  may  . . . •_ . . . —  3 

Number  of,  how  fixed  . . .  3 

Precincts,  Divided  into  . . .  3 

WAREHOUSES ; 

Location  of.  City  may  direct  . . . . . 67,  72 

Regulation,  ^Management,  etc . . . . . . . — .  61 

WARRANTS : 

Assignment  and  transfer  of  . . . — . —  113 

Auditor,  prepared  by  . . . . .  33 

City  Depository,  Duties  of,  in  paying  . . . . . . .  32 

Creditors,  Entitled  to,  when  . . . . . . . 112,  114 

Current  expenses,  payment  of,  by  . . .  52 

Debts  due  City,  not  payable  by  . —  115 

Debts,  payment  of,  provided  for,  how  .  40 

Delinquent  taxpayers,  not  entitled  to  . - .  114 

Delivery  of,  what  necessary  before  . 112,  114 

Discount  on.  Depository  not  to  receive . - .  32 

Interest,  warrants  not  to  bear . 32,  112,  115 

Issuing  of.  How  signed  . . . . . . . 24,  32 

Officers  and  employees,  not  to  purchase .  11 

Payment,  order  of . . . . .  112 

Salaries,  issued  in  payment  of . Ill,  113,  114 

Special  Funds,  drawn  on . . . . .  108 

Taxes,  not  receivable  in  payment  of .  115 

WATER  AND  W  ATERWORKS : 

City  may  acquire  or  construct . . . . . - . 57,  58 

Condemnation  of  property  for  . . . . . . . 97,  98 

Pipes  and  mains,  laying  of  . . .  63 

Private  plants,  may  be  acquired  . . .  57 

Rates,  regulation  of  . . . . . . .  57 

WATERCOURSES : 

Generally,  City  may  regulate  . . .  67 


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Section 

WEAPONS,  DEADLY : 

Carrying-  of,  within  City  limits  .  81 

WEIGHTS  AND  MEASURES : 

City  may  establish  and  regulate  . „..79,  80 

Tested  and  sealed,  may  cause  to  be  . .  79 

WELFARE  CLAUSE,  GENERAL .  1 

WHISTLES: 

Blowing  of,  may  regulate  . . . . .  93 

WIRES : 

Telegraph  and  telephone,  may  regulate  .  63 

Underground,  may  require  placing  of  .  63 

WOOD : 

Measuring  of,  may  provide  for  .  80 

WORK  HOUSES: 

May  establish  and  regulate  . ! .  65 

WORKS,  PUBLIC: 

Prisoners  may  l)e  engaged  on  . : .  100 

Y 

YEA  AND  NAY  VOTE: 

Manner  of.  Commissioners’  Meetings  .  21 

Z 

ZOOLOGICAL  GARDENS : 

IMay  establish  and  maintain  . . .  71 


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